Background
Victor Ivanovich was born on the 18 of December, 1941 in the village Bereka, Kharkov region (Ukraine).
academician artist major-general
Victor Ivanovich was born on the 18 of December, 1941 in the village Bereka, Kharkov region (Ukraine).
In 1960, Viktor Yakimova was drafted into the army. He served in the radio engineering regiment in Zarechye that near Vologda (Moscow Air Defense District), received a military specialty of radiotelegraphistst. Victor Yakimov formed a brass band from the recruits. He entered the theatre department at the Correspondence People's University named after N.K. Krupskaya admission in 1960 to the theatrical department of the faculty of cultural enlightenment work of the Lviv Higher Military-Political School. In 1969 he entered a famous Leningrad Institute of Theater, Music and Cinematography at the Faculty of Theater Studies.
From the end of the school and until the mid-1970s, Victor Ivanovich held the posts of the commander of the army, in a year and a half - the garrison officer club in Karelia, under the transfer became head of the Officers' Club in the city of Vyborg, and in 1972-75 at the invitation the leadership of the native school taught at the department of culture.
In the 1970s Victor Ivanovich was the organizer and head of the readers’ studio in Lviv, the author and director of a number of theatrical performances, compositions in the squares and stadiums of the Leningrad and Carpathian military districts. The author's composition on S. Yesenin's verses "Zveni, zveni, zlataya Rus!"was performed by Viktor Yakimov in 1975 at the republican contest of readers and brought him the title of laureate.
As Victor wanted to continue education, Victor Ivanovich entered a famous Leningrad Institute of Theater, Music and Cinematography at the Faculty of Theater Studies (1969-1977). In 1975, he was appointed the head of the Lviv Russian Drama Theater of the Soviet Army, which he chaired for five years.
In 1980 Victor Ivanovich was appointed the senior specialist in drama and theaters of the Armed Forces to the department of culture of the Main Political Directorate of the SA and the Navy. 1983 - the first appointment of Victor Ivanovich to the post of the head of the Central Academic Theater of the Soviet Army.
Victor Ivanovich headed the Department of Culture in the Main Political Department. He received a general rank in 1989. Lvov military-political school (1992), developer of the system of cultural and recreational work in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (1991-94, jointly with specialists), Department of Culture of the Ministry of Defense of the RF), presided at the Bolshoi Art Council in the Military Artists Studio named after M.B. Grekov (1987-94). During these same years he directed the team of authors, developed the concept of creating a German-Russian Museum of the surrender of fascist Germany in the war of 1941-45 (opened in the German city of Kars-host in 1995).
Victor Ivanovich is the initiator and developer of the concept "Army and religion at the present stage of the spiritual formation of soldiers" (1991-94). "Second Coming" of Viktor Yakimov to the Russian Army Theater, which continues to this day, was held in 1995.
Victor Ivanovich Yakimov was a member of the editorial boards of the magazines "Theatre Life", "Warrior of Russia", "Culture and Leisure".
The main hobby of Viktor Ivanovich remains work - he often spends 12-14 hours a day in the theater.
Victor Ivanovich Yakimov received a general rank in 1989.
Victor Ivanovich Yakimov is Professor, Academician of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences (Department of Problems of Regional Development). Secretary of the Creative Union of Cultural Workers of Russia, Honorary Master International Theatre Academy. Chairman of the State Examination Commission of the Producing Department of the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts (1999-2000).