
Viktor Antonovich Parkhimovich was born in 1942. In 1965 he graduated from the Kharkov Aviation Institute, in 1988 he gratuated course of the Institute for Advanced Training of Senior Leaders of State Administration of the Academy of National Economy under the Council of Ministers of the USSR. He degreed his Ph.D. and doctoral dissertations. He was a winner of the USSR Council of Ministers Prize. Member of the Academy of Engineering Sciences. Academician of the International Academy of MATEiZ. Honorary Doctor of Riga Aviation University. 1980 - 1981 Vice-rector of the Riga Red Banner Institute of Civil Aviation Engineers, Riga. He worked in a design bureau, at aviation plants, at a university, at the USSR Ministry of Civil Aviation (in 1981-1987 he was deputy, in 1987-1991 he was head of the Department of educational institutions), in an airline.