This article profiles phytophysiologist Vladimir Ivanovich P'yankov, who passed away on February 1, 2002. Vladimir Ivanovich P'yankov was born on March 31, 1954, in the town of Pervoural'sk, Sverdlovsk oblast, Russia to the family of a worker. In 1971, he graduated from secondary school in Pervoural'sk. In 1976, P'yankov graduated from the Faculty of Biology, Ural State University, with a first-class honors degree and became a post-graduate student at the Chair of Plant Physiology headed by Professor Mokronosov. His whole life was closely associated with this chair where he paved his way from the assistant lecturer up to Professor and Head of the Chair.