Vladimir Skulachev

Vladimir Petrovich Skulachev ([skulɑ'tʃɔf]; usually ['skuːlɑtʃef] in English; Владимир Петрович Скулачёв; 21 February 1935 – 5 February 2023) was a Russian biochemist, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences (since 1990), Doctor of Biological Sciences, Distinguished Professor at the Lomonosov Moscow State University, where he also was Dean of the Faculty of Bioengineering and Bioinformatics and Director of the A.N. Belozersky Institute Of Physico-Chemical Biology. Member of Academia Europaea. Laureate of the 1975 USSR State Prize and of the 2017 Demidov Prize. President of the Biochemical Society (Russia).

Skulachev graduated from the MSU Faculty of Biology in 1957.

Skulachev was elected a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR in 1974 and full member in 1990.

Skulachev was Editor-in-Chief of the Биохимия (Biochemistry), journal of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He was also a member of the Editorial Board for Journal Bioenergetics and Biomembranes.

Skulachev was awarded:
 * Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1972)
 * Order of Honour (Russia) (1996)
 * Order of Friendship (2013)