Background
Vladimir Vasilyevich Samoshkin was born on March 9, 1953 in the village of Pilenga, Kirovsky District, Sakhalin region, Russian Federation.
Vladimir Vasilyevich Samoshkin was born on March 9, 1953 in the village of Pilenga, Kirovsky District, Sakhalin region, Russian Federation.
Vladimir Vasilyevich lived in the city of Borisoglebsk (since 1966). He graduated from the Moscow Historical and Archival Institute (now Russian State University for the Humanities) (1988).
Vladimir Vasilyevich was a printing house printer (late 1970s - 1986), researcher at the regional museum of local lore (1986-2003). Editor-compiler of the collection "Borisoglebsk Territory" (Borisoglebsk, 1998). Since the late 1980s, he studied peasant uprisings under the leadership of A.G. Antonov on the territory of the Voronezh and Tambov provinces.
Author of the articles "Antonov Fire" ("Ascension", 1990, No. 9-11), "Peasant Uprising in the Tambov Region in 1920-1921: A Literature Review" (History of the USSR, 1990, No. 6; together with V.D. Dementiev), "A.S. Antonov" (Questions of History, 1994, No. 2), books "Chronicle of the Antonovskaya Uprising" (Borisoglebsk, 2003), "Antonovskaya Uprising" (Moscow, 2005).
Vladimir Vasilyevich participated in the work on the documentary film "Tambov Vendée" (2007). The main consultant of the film script A.S. Smirnova "Once upon a time there was a woman" (2008). In recent years, he dealt with the history of churches in the Borisoglebsky district.