Victor Vladimirovich Goryunov is a Russian mathematician born in 1956. He is a leading figure in Singularity theory, whose contributions to the subject are fundamental.^[1] He has published several books and a variety of papers in singularity theory, finite type invariants, and Legendrian knots. Many of his papers in Lagrangian and Legendrian geometry are now considered to be classical in the subject.^[1]

Goryunov completed his Ph.D. thesis, titled "Surface projection singularities", at Moscow's Lomonosov State University in 1981, under the direction of Vladimir Arnold. He is currently a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Liverpool.^[2] He is an editorial advisor of the journal Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society.

He is the co-author of two published books.

• Arnold, V. I.; Goryunov, V. V.; Lyashko, O. V.; Vassiliev, V. A. (1993), Dynamical Systems VI: Singularity Theory I, Local and global theory, Springer, ISBN 3-540-50583-0
• Arnold, V. I.; Goryunov, V. V.; Lyashko, O. V.; Vassiliev, V. A. (1993), Dynamical Systems VIII: Singularity Theory II, Classification and Applications, Springer, ISBN 3-540-53376-1

Since 1978, he has published more than 50 peer reviewed articles. A list of recent publications and preprints, together with PDF files, can be found here. A list of earlier publications can be found on his university webpage. Archived 2009-03-24 at the Wayback Machine