Was born on April 22, 1976 in Grozny, the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (RSFSR).

Doctor Sciences (History), Assoc. Professor, Colonel (reserve), Corresponding Member Russian Academy of Missile and Artillery Sciences.

Graduated from the Minsk Suvorov Military School with a silver medal (1993), Kaliningrad Higher Naval  School  with  honors (1998), adjuncture  at  the  Baltic  Naval  Institute  named  after  Admiral F.F. Ushakov (2005),

He passed retraining and advanced training at the:

• Military Academy of the General Staff of the RF Armed Forces in the specialty of command-staff operational-strategic (2009),
• Moscow Institute of Open Education under the Program of Training of Members of the Subject Commission for the State final certification on History (2017),
• Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation "under the program" State and municipal management "with the qualification" Specialist in the field of state and municipal management " (2018);
• State Academic University of Humanities under the program "Strategy and tactics of development and promotion of a scientific publication of the international level" (2019).

The service in the ranks of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation was held in command and operational positions in units and headquarters of the Baltic Fleet (1998-2002); editor (2005), senior editor (2005-2007), executive secretary of the editorial board of the Military-Historical Journal (2007-2008).

Since 2008, the Institute of Military History of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation (since 2010 - the Research Institute (Military History) of the Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation): deputy head of the research department (general problems and methodology of military history, 2008-2009), deputy chief of the Military Encyclopaedic Administration - head of the department (military history and military figures) (2009-2013); the teacher of the department (military art) of the Higher Technical School of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (2013); from September 2013 to May 2016 - head of the research department (domestic military history since the beginning of the Second World War).

Prominent Russian scientists worked in leading scientific teams: Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences G.A. Kumanev, M.A. Gareev, S.A. Tyushkevich, I.S. Danilenko, O.A. Belkov, V.V. Izonov, N.F. Kovalevsky, M.S. Monakov, V.P. Plyaskin.

Deputy Director of the Moscow Naval Cadet Corps «Navigatskaya School» (2016–2019), Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Journal «Voyenno-istoricheskiy zhurnal» (since 2020).

Corresponding Member to the Russian Academy of Missile and Artillery Sciences, member of the Scientific Council of the Russian Military Historical Society (RVIO), member Association of science editors and publishers (ASEP), member of the Society for the Study of the History of Russian Special Services, professor at the Academy of Military Sciences, full member of the European Academy of Natural Sciences, member The European Association of Science Editors (EASE), member Association Comitas Gentium France Russie (CGFR), Expert of the Expert Council of the Higher Attestation Commission for History Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation  (2016-2018). 

Member of dissertation councils on the basis of:

• Lomonosov Moscow State University (Moscow, Russian Federation), 2016-2018;
• Kant Baltic Federal University (Kaliningrad, Russian Federation);
• Military Educational and Scientific Center Navy "Naval Academy named after Admiral of the Fleet N.G. Kuznetsov" (Kaliningrad, Russian Federation), 2016-2022.

Member of the Presidium of the All-Russian organization "Officers of Russia", Expert of the Expert Council  of  the  All-Russian  movement "Silnaya Rossiya",  Сo-Сhairman of the Consultative Council "In Defense of Historical Truth".

Vladimir G. Kiknadze is the author of more than 200 scientific works, including the monograph "Exploration of the Soviet Navy in the Soviet-Finnish War of 1939-1940", noted by the Certificate of Honor of the Russian Academy of Sciences, monographs "The Invisible Front of War at Sea. Domestic marine radio electronic reconnaissance in the first half of the twentieth century "and" The invisible front of war at sea. Marine radio electronic reconnaissance in the first half of the twentieth century ";

Vladimir G. Kiknadze member of the author's collectives of books and monographs:

• Essays from the history of the Baltic Fleet;
• Soviet Navy during the Second World War. Analysis, reflection, memories;
• Sailors-Baltic in the battles for their country. 1941-1945;
• Baltic Fleet: history, traditions, modernity;
• Triumph and the tragedy of the Senyavin squadron;
• Victory in the Far East and Military Intelligence;
• Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. Myths and Reality;
• Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945: encyclopedia for the Suvorov military, Nakhimov Naval Schools and Cadet Corps;
• The main political management of the Soviet Army and the Navy - in the mirror of history and modernity;
• Liberation of Belarus, 1943-1944;
• Great Patriotic War: encyclopedia;
• Public Administration in Military Conflicts of the Second Half of the XX - Early XXI Century;
• Collection of articles by Russian and Chinese military historians dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the Victory in World War II (China);
• Great Patriotic War of 1941 - 1945: 12 t.;
• Great Victory: 15 t.;
• Nazi Germany against the Soviet Union: planning for war;
• The political and strategic content of the Third Reich's plans for the USSR: A Compendium of Documents and Materials;
• Military activities of the Marshal of the Soviet Union A.M. Vasilevsky. To the 120th anniversary of his birth;
• First World War of 1914 - 1918. In six tons;
• Baltic region in the New and Newest Times: History and Regional Policy;
• Problems of coordinating the interests of strata of modern civil society in Russia: a scientific and practical dictionary-reference book;
• Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. The historical truth about key events and phenomena in questions and answers
• In the battles for East Prussia. 75 years of the Great Victory!
• Liberation of Europe from Nazism (1944–1945): Actual Problems of Scientific Interpretation
• Encyclopedia of the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945 (Moscow, 2020)
• The Moscow-Volga Canal and its role in the history of the capital: to the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Moscow (Moscow, 2021)
• Russian policy of protecting historical truth and countering the propaganda of fascism, extremism and separatism (Moscow, 2021)
• 1941 year. From defeats to victories (Moscow; St. Petersburg, 2021)
• Historical readings at Lubyanka. XXV years (Moscow, 2021)
• Projected challenges and threats to the national security of the Russian Federation and directions for their neutralization (Moscow, 2021)
• How to protect your history? State policy of modern Russia in the field of preserving historical memory and ensuring media security: directions, contradictions, results and prospects (Moscow, 2022)
• Sila V pravde. Zashchita istoricheskoy pamyati kak strategicheskiy natsional'nyy prioritet Rossii [Force in truth. Protection of historical memory as a strategic national priority of Russia] (Moscow, 2022)
• Spetsoperatsiya. Ukrainskiy front voyny protiv Rossii [Special operation. Ukrainian front of the War against Russia] (Moscow, 2023)
  

Vladimir G. Kiknadze author of scientific articles, publications of documents, reviews and scientific reports in journals:

• Armeyskiy sbornik,
• Baltic region,
• Bezopasnost' Yevrazii,
• Vestnik Akademii voyennykh nauk,
• Vestnik Akademii prava i upravleniya,
• Vestnik arkhivista,
• Vestnik MGIMO-Universiteta,
• Vestnik molodykh uchenykh,
• Vestnik Tomskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. Istoriya,
• Izvestiya Rossiyskoy Akademii Raketnykh i Artilleriyskikh nauk,
• Voyennaya mysl',
• Voyenno-istoricheskiy arkhiv,
• Voyenno-istoricheskiy zhurnal,
• Voyenno-filosofskiy vestnik,
• Vooruzheniye i ekonomika,
• Voprosy Istorii,
• Grazhdanskoye obshchestvo v Rossii i za rubezhom,
• Gumanitarnyye nauki. Vestnik Finansovogo universiteta,
• Gumanitarnyy vestnik Voyennoy akademii RVSN,
• Ideologiya budushchego,
• Istoricheskiy arkhiv,
• Klio,
• Kul'turnaya politika,
• Mezhdunarodnaya zhizn,
  
• Mir i politika,
• Morskoy sbornik,
• Narodnoye obrazovaniye,
• Nauka. Kul'tura. Obsestvo,
• Nauka. Obsestvo. Oborona,
• Novaya i noveyshaya istoriya,
• Novyy Chasovoy,
• Otechestvennaya istoriya,
• Rossiyskaya istoriya,
• Strategicheskaya stabil'nost',
• Flagman,
• FSB: Za i Protiv,
• Baltic Rim Economies,
• Military Though.

Participated in more than 100 international and all-Russian scientific conferences and congresses.

Publicistic works are published in the:

• Avrora,
• Argumenty i Fakty,
• BBC,
• BelRos,
• Vzglyad,
• Voyenno-promyshlennyy kur'yer,
• Vuzovskiy vestnik,
• Gazeta.ru,
• Govorit Moskva,
• Den TV,
• Izvestiya,
• Zavtra,
• Zvezda,
• Krasnaya Zvezda,
• Lenta.ru,
• LIFE,
• News-Front,
• Nezavisimoye voyennoye obozreniye,
• Novorossiyskoye televideniye,
• Novyy put',
• Obshchestvennaya sluzhba novostey,
• Octagon.media,
• PublicO,
• Parlamentskaya gazeta,
• Pervyy kanal,
  
• Politnavigator,
• Pravda.Ru,
• Radio «Komsomol'skaya pravda»,
• Radio Yunost',
• Radio Sputnik, 
• RBC,
• REN.TV,
• RIA,
• Rossiyskaya Gazeta,
• Rossiya,
• Regnum,
• RuBaltic.Ru,
• Riafan,
• RT.com,
• Sovetskaya Rossiya,
• Silovoy blok,
• SM-News,
• Solovyev LIVE,
  
• Stavropol,
• Tavrida,
  
• FederalPress,
  
• VATNIKSTAN,
• 365 dney TV

In total there are more than 300 works in the bibliographic list, incl. ed. in English, Chinese. and Fr. languages.

Vladimir G. Kiknadze participant, scientific consultant and scriptwriter of TV shows and films:

• Radio-electronic reconnaissance of the Soviet Navy in the Great Patriotic War ("Invisible Front" series of the company "Voen-TV" for the channels "Stolitsa" and "ONT" (RB);

• Soviet-Finnish War of 1939-1940 ("Secrets of Intelligence" of the "Top Secret" for the channel NTV),
• Victory Day ("Big Change" TV channel VKT),
• Following the tracks of General Yermolov;
• Marshal of the Soviet Union AM Vasilevsky ("People of Russia" TV channel "Together-RF"); 
• The liberation of the Red Army of Europe in 1944-1945: current issues (State Historical Museum); 
• Radio intelligence of the Soviet Navy in the Great Patriotic War; 
• Nazi crimes against civilians in the USSR: new documents, facts, investigations; 
• Genocide: a shadow hiding races (Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation);
• Dossier at the executioners (TRC of the RF Armed Forces "Star", Classified materials);
• Stories and experiences of denazification after World War II (“365 Days TV”, “Historiada”);
• Victory Day. Confrontation (TRK "Zvezda", "Special reportage");
• Weapons of truth: how to intensify the struggle for the preservation of history? ("BelRos", "Minsk-Moscow");
• Europe rewriting history? ("Obshchestvennaya sluzhba novostey", "Worth Thinking");
• USSR. Thaw (Lectorium "Dostoevsky");
• The Third Reich's war of annihilation: the genocide of the peoples of the world ("365 Days TV", "Historiada");
• National Unity Day (Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation);
• Battle for the Caucasus. Unknown War (TV channel "Russia 24");
• Cancel Culture in Historical Contex ("365 Days TV", "Historiada").
  

tMember of the Editorial Board of the research and publishing project "Military History of the Russian State", the editorial board of the journal "Questions of History", the Editor-in-chief journal "Science. Society. Defense".

Winner (2020, 2016, 2014), Laureate of the main prize (2019, 2018, 2017, 2013) of the All-Russian Contest "Patriot of Russia" for the best coverage in electronic and print media of the topic of patriotic education:

• for a series of documentary materials about the atrocities of the fascists in the occupied territory (2020);
• for a series of publications on Russian science and the country's defense (2019);
• for consistent work on highlighting the current problems of Russian science, the development of Russian society and ensuring the defense capability of Russia (2018);
• for the consistent development of patriotic themes in the Internet publication "Science. Society. Defense" (2017);
• for a series of publications on the defense of modern Russia (2016);
• for a series of materials in the sections "Patriotic education," "Objective history," "Countering attempts to falsify and distort history to the detriment of Russia's interests" (2014);
• for a series of materials on the development of Russian society, the current problems of domestic science, ensuring the country's defense capability, published in the online edition of Science, Society and Defense (2013).

Vladimir G. Kiknadze Laureate of the first incentive award of the contest of the best materials published in the journals of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation and the newspaper Krasnaya Zvezda in 2012 (for the article "State and Military Management in Internal Armed Conflicts in the North Caucasus (end of XX - beginning of the XXI century)" // Military-Historical Journal. 2012. №2, 3).

Laureate of the Forum "Public Recognition" (for strengthening the power and glory of Russia); the decision of the Supreme Council of the National Association of Reserve Officers' Unions of the Armed Forces (MEGAPIR) No. 3984 of January 22, 2014.

Laureate of the International Photography Contest "Heroes of the First World. Photos from personal archives" (2014).