[3] Victor Talrose was born in Tula, Russia, an industrial city on the Upa River 200 kilometers (120 mi) south of Moscow.

He began work on his master's degree in the Laboratory of Elementary Processes headed by Viktor Kondrat’ev.

He became junior researcher at the Institute of Chemical Physics in Kondratyev lab, but was transferred to work on development of the Soviet atomic bomb project.

He also developed gas phase ion chemistry bracketing techniques for determining proton affinity.

In 1997, he moved to the United States and began a collaboration with the mass spectrometry group at the University of California at San Francisco.