Ivan Drach was born on October 17, 1936 in Telizhentsy, Kiev Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR. He was a writer, known for
Propala hramota (1972),
Kaminnyy khrest (1968) and
Krynytsya dlya sprahlykh (1965). He was married to Maria Mikhailovna. He died on June 19, 2018 in Kyiv, Ukraine.