Victor Serge, born Victor Lvovich Kibalchich, was a Russian revolutionary Marxist, novelist, poet and historian. Originally an anarchist, he joined the Bolsheviks five months after arriving in Petrograd in January 1919 and later worked for the Comintern as a journalist, editor and translator. He was critical of the Stalinist regime and remained a revolutionary Marxist until his death. He is best remembered for his Memoirs of a Revolutionary and series of seven "witness-novels" chronicling the lives of Soviet people and revolutionaries and of the first half of the 20th century.
Victor Mikhailovich Shkulev is a Russian journalist, publisher, media manager. He is the president of Hearst Shkulev Media. Entered the top five most influential media managers post-Soviet Russia by the magazine "Career" and the weekly newspaper "New Look". Deputy Chairman of FIPP.
Victor Victorovich Solkin is a Russian historian (Egyptology), museologist, lecturer, founder and leader of the Association for the Study of Ancient Egypt MAAT.
Victor Aleksandrovich Sosnora was a Russian poet, writer and playwright. He is considered one of the most important representatives of the Leningrad/Petersburg school.
Victor Stern was an Austrian philosopher, teacher and communist politician. He was active in communist parties in Austria and Germany until 1923 when he was forced to exile. He settled first in Czechoslovakia and then in the Soviet Union. From 1946 he lived in East Germany where he stayed until his death.
Victor Anatolyevich Vassiliev or Vasilyev, is a Soviet and Russian mathematician. He is best known for his discovery of the Vassiliev invariants in knot theory, which subsume many previously discovered polynomial knot invariants such as the Jones polynomial. He also works on singularity theory, topology, computational complexity theory, integral geometry, symplectic geometry, partial differential equations, complex analysis, combinatorics, and Picard–Lefschetz theory.
Victor Oleksandrovych Veretennikov was a Ukrainian businessman, writer, screenwriter, journalist & politician. A member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and later an independent, he served in the Verkhovna Rada from 1990 to 1994 and again from 2002 to 2006.
