Lobanov was born into a peasant family in
Moscow Governorate. He graduated from the Agronomic Faculty of the
Moscow Timiryazev Agricultural Academy in 1925. • 1925 – agronomist of the
Shakhovskaya Section of the
Volokolamsky Uyezd of the Moscow Region; • 1925–1926 – served in the
Workers' and Peasants' Red Army; • 1926–1927 – agronomist for grain inspection of the elevator of the Moscow–Kazan railway; • 1927–1930 – agronomist of the
Kostroma District and district land administration; • 1930–1931 – technical director of the
Soviet Farm "Ilyich's Precepts",
Ivanovo Oblast; • 1931–1936 –
postgraduate student at the All–Union Scientific Research Institute of Soviet Farms; • 1936–1937 – head of the department of the
Moscow Institute of Land Management; • 1937 – Director of the Voronezh Agricultural Institute; • 1937–1938 – Deputy People's Commissar of Agriculture of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic; • 1938 – People's Commissar of Agriculture of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic; • 1938–1946 – People's Commissar of Grain and Livestock Farms of the Soviet Union; • 1946–1953 – Deputy, 1st Deputy Minister of Agriculture of the Soviet Union; • 1953 – 1st Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Procurement of the Soviet Union; • 1953–1955 – First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and Minister of Agriculture and Procurement of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (since 1953 – Minister of Agriculture of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic); • 1955–1956 – Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union; • 1956–1961 – President of the
Lenin All–Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences and Chairman of the Council of the Union of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union (until 1962); • 1961–1965 – Deputy Chairman of the
State Planning Committee of the Soviet Union; • 1965–1978 – President of the Lenin All–Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences. From 1978, he was a personal pensioner. He died in 1984 and is buried in the city of Dmitrov. ==Awards==