Vadim Petrovich Zakharov (Russian: Вадим Петрович Захаров; born 19 April 1975[1] in Semyono-Pokrovskoye, Kugarchinsky District, Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Soviet Union) is a Russian scientist-chemist, high school teacher, Doctor of Chemical Sciences (2004), professor (2009) and acting rector at Bashkir State University (since 8 April 2022).

Vadim Petrovich Zakharov was born on 19 April 1975 in the village of Semeno-Petrovskoye, Kugarchinsky District, Bashkir ASSR.

His mother, Nadezhda Egorovna Zakharova (née, Lebedeva; 1935–1993), worked as an accountant in the village council.

The obtained theoretical basis made it possible to develop solutions, thanks to which the tasks were solved for developing production and economic indicators in the field of technology for synthesis and processing of polymers and the use of polymers for physical and chemical methods of enhanced reservoir recovery rate.

V. P. Zakharov is the author of 8 monographs, 3 of which were published abroad (in the UK, the Netherlands and the USA),[7] more than 280 scientific articles (more than half of which are abstracted in the international databases of Web of Science and Scopus), 25 patents (10 implemented with a significant economic effect at the enterprises of the real sector of the economy, 7 of them — at the largest industrial enterprises of Bashkortostan).