The Editor-in-Chief of the journal «Vestnik arheologii, antropologii i etnografii» Viktor A. Zakh, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Chief Researcher, Tyumen Scientific Centre of Siberian Branch Russian Academy of Sciences. He graduated from the Novosibirsk State Pedagogical Institute in 1977. He specialized in the archaeology of Western Siberia under Professor T.N. Troitskaya. From 1978 to 1990, he worked as a history and social science teacher in a secondary school, and as the head of an archaeology school club at the Palace of Pioneers in rural settlements of the Novosibirsk Region. He was an employee of the research sector at the Novosibirsk Pedagogical Institute and Tyumen State University. Since 1990, he has been an employee of the Institute of the problems of Northern development of the Siberian Branch RAS. In 1990, he defended his candidate dissertation on the topic of "Neolithic and Bronze Age of the Salair Region" at Kemerovo State University, and in 2006, he defended his doctoral dissertation on the topic of "Chronostratigraphy of the Neolithic and Early Metal Age of the Forest Tobol-Ishim river region" at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of the Siberian Branch RAS (Novosibirsk). From the 2000s to the 2010s, he headed the Human Paleoecology Laboratory and the Archaeology Laboratory at the Institute of the problems of Northern development of the Siberian Branch RAS. He also taught archaeology and the history of prehistory at the Ishim Pedagogical Institute and Tyumen State University. He supervised five dissertations for the degree of Candidate of Historical Sciences. He is the author and co-author of 13 monographs and approximately 200 scientific articles and publications in Russian and international periodicals and collections, including journals included in the WoS and Scopus databases. His h-index as of the beginning of 2026 was 21. For several years, he reviewed applications and reports for research projects at research organizations within the Ural Branch and Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

His main research interests include various aspects of the study of Neolithic and Early Iron Age cultures in Western Siberia and the development of its territories in the Early Modern Period, as well as issues of human-environment interaction.