Vladimir Afanasyevich Obruchev was a Russian and Soviet geologist who specialized in the study of Siberia and Central Asia. He was also one of the first Russian science fiction authors.
Prince Vladimir Fyodorovich Odoyevsky was a prominent Russian Imperial philosopher, writer, music critic, philanthropist and pedagogue. He became known as the "Russian Hoffmann" and even the "Russian Faust" on account of his keen interest in phantasmagoric tales and musical criticism.
Vladimir Petrovich Ogorodnikov is a Soviet Russian philosopher. Doktor Nauk (1987), Honorary Professor at the St. Petersburg State Transport University (2014), Professor at the A.F. Mozhaysky Military-Space Academy, Member of the Petrovskaya Academy of Sciences and Arts (2003), Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences.
He is a Specialist in Theory of Determinism.
Vladimir Nikolaevich Osipov was a Russian writer who founded the Soviet samizdat journal Veche (Assembly). The journal is considered to be an important document of the nationalist or Slavophile strand within the Soviet dissident movement.
Vladimir Semyonovich Ovchinsky is a Russian criminologist, Major general, Doctor of Sciences in Jurisprudence, Professor, 3rd class Active State Councillor of the Russian Federation (2006), Honoured Lawyer of Russia. From 1995 to 1997, he was an assistant to the Minister of Internal Affairs of Russia. From 1997 to 1999, he was the head of the Russian Bureau of Interpol.
Former advisor to the Collective Security Treaty Organization.
