Ivan Izokh was born in Klichevo in 1918.

He joined the Red Army in 1938 and in the same year, he graduated from Borisogleb Military Aviation School of Pilots.

In December 1941, starshiy leitenant Izokh was posted to 482 IAP, which operated on the Transcaucasian Front. The unit was equipped with Polikarpov I-153s.

He is reported to have claimed one and one destroyed Ju 88 in September 1942 and this probably took place before 16 September since on this date the unit was withdrawn from combat to retrain on LaGG-3s.

The retraining ended on 10 December and between 15 December and 26 February 1943, the unit served in the Moscow air defence. On 27 February, the unit was again withdrawn for retraining, this time on La-5s. The retraining ended on 24 June.

On 7 July, 482 IAP again went into combat as part of 322 IAD on the Bryansk Front.

On 3 August, starshiy leitenant Izokh didn’t return after a combat mission.

At the time of his death, Izokh was credited with 1 biplane victory and a total of 12.
These had been claimed during approximately 200 combat missions.

Claims:

Kill no.	Date	Time	Number	Type	Result	Plane type	Serial no.	Locality	Unit
	1942
1	??/09/42		1	Ju 88 (a)	Destroyed	I-153		Transcaucasian Front	482 IAP
	??/09/42		1/2	Ju 88 (a)	Shared destroyed	I-153		Transcaucasian Front	482 IAP
	1943
2	14/07/43		1	Bf 110	Destroyed	La-5		Yagodnaya	482 IAP
3	14/07/43		1	Bf 110	Destroyed	La-5		Yagodnaya	482 IAP
4	14/07/43		1	Bf 110	Destroyed	La-5		Yagodnaya	482 IAP
5	14/07/43		1	FW 190	Destroyed	La-5		Yagodnaya	482 IAP
	15/07/43		1/3	Ju 88	Shared destroyed	La-5		Yagodnaya	482 IAP
6	16/07/43		1	Bf 109	Destroyed	La-5		Yagodnaya	482 IAP
7	16/07/43		1	Bf 109	Destroyed	La-5		Yagodnaya	482 IAP
	17/07/43		1/2	FW 189	Shared destroyed	La-5		Bolkhov	482 IAP
8	19/07/43		1	Ju 87	Destroyed	La-5		Dolino	482 IAP
9	27/07/43		1	FW 190	Destroyed	La-5		Luchki	482 IAP
10	31/07/43		1	He 111	Destroyed	La-5		SW Bolkhov	482 IAP
11	31/07/43		1	Bf 109	Destroyed	La-5		W Bolkhov	482 IAP
12	31/07/43		1	Bf 109	Destroyed	La-5		W Bolkhov	482 IAP

Biplane victories: 1 and 1 shared destroyed.
TOTAL: 12 and 3 shared destroyed.
(a) Probably claimed before 16 September 1942.

Sources:
All aces of Stalin 1936-1953 – Mikhail Bykov, 2014
Soviet Aces 1936-1953
Soviet Fighter Pilots 1936-1953 - Mikhail Bykov