Background
Vladimir Pimenov was born on September 24, 1930 in Voronezh, Russian Federation. He was born in the family of theater critic Vladimir Fedorovich Pimenov.
Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation
Vladimir Pimenov was born on September 24, 1930 in Voronezh, Russian Federation. He was born in the family of theater critic Vladimir Fedorovich Pimenov.
He graduated from the History Department of Moscow State University in 1954.
Since 1958 he had been a researcher at the Institute of Language, Literature, and History of the Karelian Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences, at the same time he was a teacher at the Department of the USSR History of Petrozavodsk State University. In the 1970-1980s he was a senior researcher at the Institute of Ethnography of the USSR Academy of Sciences. Since 1986 he had been the head of the ethnography department at Moscow State University. He became Doctor of Historical Sciences in 1977 and professor in 1979.