Vladimir Nikolaevich Platonov  Vladimir Nikolaevich Platonov (born July 28, 1941, Kiev, Ukrainian SSR) is a Soviet and Ukrainian scientist in the field of sports science. Platonov graduated from the Kiev State Institute of Physical Culture (KSIPC) in 1962. He then did postgraduate study at KSIPC and received a Doctor of Science in Pedagogy in 1979. From 1969 to 1975, Platonov worked as a Senior Lecturer and then as an Assistant Professor at the Kyiv Institute of National Economy and concurrently the senior fellow of the fundamental research laboratory of high training loads at KGIFK. He was head of the department of swimming at KSIPC (1975–1977), Vice-Rector for scientific research (1977–1986), Head of the Department of theory of sports at KSIPC established by him (1984–1990), Head of the Department of Olympic and professional sports at KSIPC (1992–2000), Head of the Department of theory and methodology of sports preparation and reserve capacities of athletes at NUPESU (2003–2005); Rector of KSIPC, SUPES, and NUPESU (1986–2012); Adviser to the Rector of NUPESU, Professor of the Department of history and theory of the Olympic sport, and has been Editor-in-Chief of International scientific-theoretical journal "Science in Olympic sport" since 2012.