Background
Vitaliy Tatianin was born on the 24th of October, 1934 in Rostov-na-donu, Russian Federation in the family of a military man. Since the beginning of the 1950s, his father was an editor of the newspaper of the Voronezh Military District "Banner of the Motherland".
Education
Vitaliy Tatianin graduated from high school in Tashkent. He studied at the geological department of the Central Asian University in Tashkent from 1952 to 1953. He graduated from the geological department of Voronezh State University in 1957.
Career
Vitaliy Tatianin worked as a mountain instructor, exploration engineer, local geologist at the Kursk magnetic anomaly. He published poetry from his student years. Tatyanin’s poem To the Golden Ground is devoted to the history of the development of the Kursk magnetic anomaly. Lives in Belgorod now.