Armored Forces of Russia and the Soviet Union

Victor Schunkow is a historian specializing in military technology. Born in 1948 in Kuibyshev, Russia (now known as Samara), Shunkow followed in his father’s footsteps and enrolled in a specialized military educational program, where he defended his thesis in German. Subsequently he continued his education in the graduate school of the All-Union Institute of Scientific and Technical Information. He is author of more than 90 books, with publishers in Russia, Germany, Bulgaria, and Belarus. He lives in Belarus.