Vladimir Aleksandrovich Barykin was born on 22 November 1879 in Oryol Governorate.
From 1904 to 1905, during the Russo-Japanese War, he served in Manchuria as a physician-therapist in the Siberian military-sanitary train of Princess Zinaida Yusupova.
From 1905 to 1908, Barykin was the head of the Staro-Harbinskaya bacteriological laboratory at the Chinese Eastern Railway and fought outbreaks of plague.
In 1912, he trained at the Nesterov Institute under the guidance of Ilya Mechnikov and Jules Bordet.
On 14 April 1939, he was sentenced to capital punishment and was executed the next day[1] (according to other information, he died in a labour camp in 1942).