Vladimir Petrukhin (full name: Vladimir Yakovlevich Petrukhin, Russian: ?????´??? ?´???????? ?????´???; born on July 25, 1950 in Pushkino, Moscow Oblast, Soviet Union) is a Russian historian, archaeologist and ethnographer, Doctor of Historical Sciences (since 1994), professor of History and Archives Institute of the Russian State University for the Humanities, chief research fellow of the Medieval Section of the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences.