Background
Nikolaev, Valerij Aleksandrovich was born on December 15, 1938 in Nikolskoe, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics. Son of Aleksander Grigor'evich Nikolaev and Galina Avksent'evna (Kozlovskaja) Nikolaeva.
Nikolaev, Valerij Aleksandrovich was born on December 15, 1938 in Nikolskoe, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics. Son of Aleksander Grigor'evich Nikolaev and Galina Avksent'evna (Kozlovskaja) Nikolaeva.
Master of Science in Chemistry, Leningrad State University, 1961. Candidate Chemical Science, Leningrad State University, 1974. Doctor Chemical Science, St. Petersburg State University, 1986.
Engineer-chemist, research chemist, Scientific Research Institute of Petrochem. Industry, Ufa, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics, 1961-1967;
graduate student, Leningrad State University, 1968-1971;
head laboratory organic synthesis, Leningrad State University, 1971-1975;
research fellow Institute Chemistry, Leningrad State University, 1976-1979;
senior research fellow Institute Chemistry, St. Petersburg U., since 1979. Postdoctoral fellow Sektion Chemie KMU, Leipzig, Democratic Republican Germany, 1982.
Research fellow Humboldt U., Berlin, 1982-1983. Visiting scientist chemistry department Ohio State University, 1994.
Member Mendeleev Chemical Society.
Married Zoja Kalenikovna Kononenko, December 1961 (divorced 1979). Children: Tatjana, Darja. Married Ludmila Leonidovna Rodina, May, 1980.
Children: Vsevolod, Yaroslav, Nastasya.