Viktor Petrik, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Viktor Petrik

Russian businessman, pseudoscientist

Date of Birth: 22-Jun-1946

Place of Birth: Karpivtsi, Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukraine

Profession: businessperson, peddler, patent inventor, con artist

Nationality: Russia

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Viktor Petrik (Russian: ?????? ??????) (born 1946) is a Russian businessman.
He claims to have made a number of scientific breakthroughs which he markets through his company Goldformula.
His supporters have compared him to Thomas Edison, but mainstream scientists dismiss his inventions as pseudoscience.
Petrik gained a notoriety in Russia during the scandal, dubbed Petrikgate, related to the involvement of politicians in promotion of Petrik's pseudoinventions.