Viktor Antonovich Zolotarev was born on July 20, 1946 in Odessa in the family of a Soviet army officer. He received his education at the Leningrad Suvorov School and the Higher Combined Arms Command School. After graduating in 1967, VOCU began service in the Headquarters of the Leningrad Military District, from 1976 to 1988 he served in the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the USSR and in the Headquarters of the United Armed Forces of the Warsaw Pact member states. In 1974, V. A. Zolotarev graduated
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Viktor Antonovich Zolotarev was born on July 20, 1946 in Odessa in the family of a Soviet army officer. He received his education at the Leningrad Suvorov School and the Higher Combined Arms Command School. After graduating in 1967, VOCU began service in the Headquarters of the Leningrad Military District, from 1976 to 1988 he served in the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the USSR and in the Headquarters of the United Armed Forces of the Warsaw Pact member states. In 1974, V. A. Zolotarev graduated from correspondence adjuncture of the Military Academy of rear and transport, in 1977 defended his candidate's, and in 1985 - his doctoral dissertation. Since 1991 - Professor, in 2000 became Doctor of Law. Love for military history was manifested by V. Zolotarev while studying at the Suvorov school, and since 1972 he has seriously engaged in it. At the heart of his research is the problem of Russia’s exit to the Mediterranean, the historical aspects of Russian maritime communications in the context of the history of international relations of modern times. The first monograph was devoted to the historiographical analysis of the Russian-Turkish war of 1877-1878. Since 1988, V.A. Zolotarev was the head of the Department of Domestic Military History of the Institute of Military History of the Ministry of Defense of the USSR, in 1991-1992 he was an assistant to the chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the USSR, in 1992-1993 he was an adviser to the first deputy minister of defense of the Russian Federation. In 1993, he was appointed head of the Institute of Military History of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. In 1996-1997 - Deputy Head of the Main Directorate of the President of the Russian Federation for the Protection of the Constitutional Rights of Citizens of Russia, Head of the Department for Pardon and Rehabilitation, then - Military Inspector of the Russian Federation in the Office of the Security Council of the Russian Federation (1998-1999), Member of the Presidential Commission for State Awards (1995-1999). Since 1996 he has headed the Presidential Commission on Prisoners of War, Internees and Missing Persons. V.A. Zolotarev owns more than 300 scientific works on military history and theory, orientalism, history of Russia. Most of his books are made at the junction of four scientific disciplines: Russian history, military history, general history and oriental studies. The most significant among them are “Military-historical thought in Russia at the turn of the XIX-XX centuries” (1975), “Genesis and trends in the development of military art in Russia in the second half of the XVIII century” (1982), “Russia and Turkey: the war of 1877-1878” (1983), “Confrontation of empires” (1991), “From Carthage to Russian: Essays on the History of Military Art” (1993), “Apostolic” (1998), “Russian security” (1994), “Moot;” (Moot; Russia, 2000), " " and others). Full member of RAEN (1991), Vice-President of RAEN. Member of the Society of Orientalists of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1987), Chairman of the Commission on Military Orientalism of the Russian Geographical Society (1987).