Arkady V. Kim was born in Rzyl-Orda, the USSR, in 1951. He graduated from the radio-physical faculty of the Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod in 1974 and a Ph.D. degree in physics from the Institute of Applied Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia in 1983. Since 1977, he has been with the Institute of Applied Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Currently, he is the head of the extreme nonlinear optics laboratory. His research activities are centered on nonlinear optics, including fiber optics, fiber lasers from near-IR to mid-IR, extreme nonlinear optics at high intensities, including super-strong fields, as well as laser-matter interactions at relativistically strong intensities.