[1] Vladimir Isaakovich Minkin graduated from the Chemical Faculty of Rostov State University in 1957.

Since 1967 he was a Professor of the Department of Natural Compounds, in 1981-2012 — Director of the Research Institute of Physical Organic Chemistry of the RSU (SFedU).

In 1974 he discovered (together with Lev Olekhnovich and Yuri Zhdanov) the phenomenon of acylotrophy — rapid reversible migration of acyl groups between nucleophilic centers in organic molecules.

[3] He was the founder of a new scientific field — chemistry of structurally nonrigid molecules in the ground and excited states.

He developed the theory of orbital stabilization of "nonclassical" structures of organic compounds.