Prof. Dr. Vladimir V. Kouznetsov was born in 1957 within the polar circle, near the port of Murmansk in the USSR and studied Chemistry at the Russian Peoples Friendship University (Moscow), where he received his M.Sc. (1981) and Ph.D. (1986) degrees with distinctions in Organic chemistry. In 1990-1992, he did postdoctoral studies at the University of Oviedo, Spain. He obtained his posthabilitation D.Sc. degree and was appointed as full Professor of the Russian Peoples Friendship University in 1994. In the same year, he started to work at the Industrial University of Santander (Bucaramanga, Colombia), where he is director of the Laboratory of Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry. From this time, he had received various awards in Pharmacology, Oncology, and Phytopharmaceutical science. In 2012 he received the National Science Award, Colombian Association for the Advancement of Science. In 2014 he became a Corresponding Member of the Colombian Academy of Exact, Physical, and Natural Sciences. He has been featured in the World Ranking of the Top 2% Scientists in 2020 and 2021. In 2021 he gained the Award for Educational Excellence Cusco 2021 Edition, Peru from International Organization for Educational Inclusion and Quality. His current research activities focus on heterocyclic diversity-oriented synthesis, green synthetic methodologies, medicinal chemistry, chemical biology, and organic materials chemistry.