Vladimir Alexandrovich Dergachev (Russian: Владимир Александрович Дергачёв, Ukrainian: Володимир Олександрович Дергачов; born 9 September 1945) is a Russian^[1] geographer whose professional activity is focused on geopolitics. He is a member of the Union of Journalists of Ukraine and, since 1976, of the Institute of Market Problems and Economic-Environmental Research of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR and its successor, the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.^[2] He is also an honorary member of the Ukrainian Geographical Society.^[3]

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Vladimir Dergachev was born on 9 September 1945 in Zabaykalsky Krai, Russian SFSR, in the family of a military officer.^[4] He completed his schooling in Astrakhan in 1962, before moving to Moscow for his university studies.^[5] In 1967 he graduated with a degree in economic geography from the Geography faculty of Moscow State University, where he also completed his aspirantura in 1976, under the supervision of Yulian Saushkin,^[6] and in 1987 obtained the degree of Doktor nauk in Geography.^[7][8]

After graduation in 1967 Dergachev worked as an engineer-economist for Gosstroy in the Byelorussian SSR and in the meteorological service of the Soviet Armed Forces, achieving the rank of senior lieutenant.^[9] In the 1971-1972 period he held a scientific position at the Pacific Institute of Geography of the Far East branch of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union,^[10] before returning to Moscow for his postgraduate studies. He has resided in Odesa since 1976, remaining in the country after independence. Dergachev held a professorship in international economics at Odessa State University between 1976 and 1991, concurrently with his research position at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.^[11][12] In 1998 he founded the Institute for Geostrategic Technologies (Geopolitics) of Professor Dergachev, which he later transformed into a website where he publishes a series of electronic journals as well as his own articles.^[13] Between 2001 and 2018 he returned to the now renamed Odesa National University, where he held a professorship in economics, and since 2016 he has taught at Odesa National Maritime University.^[14]

Dergachev has authored over 700 scientific and popular writings, and is a frequent contributor to both Russian and Ukrainian media.^[15] The following are some of his publications:

Books (in Russian):

• Geopolitika (Kyiv: VIRA-R, 2000) ISBN 966-95440-5-X
• Geoeconomika (Kyiv: VIRA-R, 2002) ISBN 966-7807-15-0
• Tsivilizatsionnaya geopolitika: Geofilosofiia (Kyiv: VIRA-R, 2004) ISBN 966-7807-17-7
• Geopolitika: Uchebnoe posobie (Moscow: UNITI-DANA, 2004) ISBN 5-238-00779-5
• Regionovedenie (Moscow: UNITI-DANA, 2004, co-authored by L.B. Vardomsky) ISBN 5-238-00765-5
• Mezhdunarodnye ekonomicheskie otnosheniia (Moscow: UNITI-DANA, 2005) ISBN 5-238-00863-5
• Globalistika (Moscow: UNITI-DANA, 2005) ISBN 5-238-00957-7
• Geopoliticheskie slovar-spravochnik (Kyiv: KNT, 2009) ISBN 978-966-373-499-6

Articles:

• "Исторические циклы хозяйственного освоения территории", Вестник Московского университета. Серия геогр., 1976, № 2 (in Russian, translated into English as "Historical Cycles of Economic Development of a Territory", Soviet Geography, Vol. XVIII, No 6, 1977, pp. 410—414).
• "Природно-хозяйственная контактная зона «суша-океан»", Известия Всесоюзного географического общества, 1980, том 112, вып.1 (in Russian, translated into English as "The Physical-Economic Contact Zone Be-tween Land and Sea", Soviet Geography, Vol. XXII, No 8, 1981, pp. 484—491).
• "Peculiarities in the Formation of Populated Places on the Seaboard of the USSR", Soviet Geography, vol. XXVII, No 3, 1986, pp. 143—155.