Editing Iona Nikitchenko (section)

== Later career ==
[[File:RUSMARKA-2187.jpg|thumb|Russian postal card, issued on 14 December 2016 and dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg, with images of Iona Nikitchenko and [[Roman Rudenko]]]]
In March 1946, Nikitchenko was re-elected to the Supreme Court of the USSR, and until July 1949 he worked as deputy chairman of this body. From August 1949 to September 1951, head of the department of linear water transport vessels of the Ministry of Justice. He retired in 1951. 

Iona Nikitchenko died in 1967 and was buried at the [[Vvedenskoye Cemetery]] in Moscow.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2016-03-04 |title=Фотоархив Введенское кладбище – Немецкое кладбище Москва – Участок № 28/Никитченко |url=http://www.vvedenskoe.pogost.info/displayimage.php?album=10&pos=144 |access-date=2024-01-02 |archive-date=2016-03-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304090058/http://www.vvedenskoe.pogost.info/displayimage.php?album=10&pos=144 |url-status=bot: unknown }}</ref>