Major-General Vladimir Dvorkin

Vladimir Dvorkin is one of the authors of all major documents related to the Strategic Nuclear Forces and the Strategic Missile Forces. For many years he has been participating as an expert in preparing SALT II, the INF Treaty, START I and START II. He made a significant contribution to formulating Soviet and Russia’s position at the negotiations on strategic offensive arms control and reduction.

Major-General Vladimir Dvorkin is well-known in Russia and abroad. He is an Honored Worker of Science and Technology of the Russian Federation, Doctor of Science, Professor, Full Member of the Russian Academy of Missile and Artillery Sciences, the Academy of the Military Sciences, the Russian Engineering Academy, the International Engineering Academy, and the Academy of Astronautics.

He was born on January 12, 1936 in Leningrad. Graduated from the High Military Naval College in 1958 and until 1962 worked at the State Central Naval Testing Site. Vladimir Dvorkin took part in the first Soviet tests of nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines and in the first underwater test launches.

In 1962-2001, Gen. Dvorkin worked in the 4th Central Research Institute of the Russian Defense Ministry, which he headed since 1993. Gen. Dvorkin has more than 350 publications.

He defended his doctoral thesis in 1974.

Vladimir Dvorkin participated and directed the following fundamental research:

• construction of mathematic models to substantiate the major directions of development of the state arms programs, R&D plans, combat scenarios and structure of the SNF groups;
• development of the prospective missile systems, feasibility studies and devising characteristics of the missile weapons for several generations of missile systems;
• complex experimental testing of missile weapons.