 After graduation, Ignatovich returned to Lugansk, where he began work as a journalist and joined the Communist Party.He worked as an editorial assistant at the Kharkiv newspaper "Krasnaya Zvezda" and the Kiev newspaper "Vseizdat", then as a managing editor of the newspaper "Krasnaya Bashkiria" in Ufa, Bashkortostan.He was also in charge of the regional office of Russian Telegraph Agency (ROSTA) in Sterlitamak.