[1] He was born on 26 September 1948 in the village of Orekhovo, Domachevsky District, Brest Oblast, BSSR[1] At first, Molodin wanted to become a naval aviator, but he was forced to abandon these plans.
[1] From 1992 to 1998, he was the head of the department of archeology and ethnography of the Faculty of Humanities in Novosibirsk State University.
His areas of interest include ethnography, staurography and problems of the history of science, as well as the use of interdisciplinary approaches in archeology.
[5] In 2015, a team led by Molodon discovered a complex consisting of two dwellings and several pits for harvesting of fish.
Two independent examinations of animal bones from pit for harvesting of fish carried out at the Centre of Collective Usage (Novosibirsk) and the Engelhorn Archeometry Centre (Mannheim) confirmed the correctness of dating the complex to the 7th millennium BC.