Vladimir M. Zakharov was born on 5 July 1946 in a small Russian village of Murzitsy in the Sechenovsky District. From 1960 to 1964 he studied at Choreography Department of Kaliningrad Regional College of Culture. After he had graduated from the college, he studied several years at Leningrad. After graduating from the Institute in 1969, he started his professional career as Chief Choreographer with Volzhsky National Russian Folk Choir in Kuybishev city on the Volga River. From 1970 until his death in 2013, Vladimir Zakharov successfully developed his career in choreography and ballet education. For three years he worked as choreography coach at the College of Arts in Kirov city. In 1974 he staged choreography pieces for ossetiasn Dance Group "Alan" in Ordzhonikidze. From 1973-1974 he was teaching choreography at SamaraUniversity of Culture. He also started his career as ballet administrator with the Ministry of Culture of Russia. From 1975 to 1980 Vladimir worked as a Chief Choreographer of the Soviet Army Dance and Song Theatre in Dresden, East Germany. It was in 1980 when he created together with famous singer Alexandra Prokoshina, the Russian Folk Dance and Song Group "Iskorka" in Kotelnichesky oblast of Vyatka-city. He worked with Iskorka till 1986. At the same time, Vladimir Zakharov headed and administrated national choreography at Rosconcert in Moscow. At that time he was recognized as one of the leading Russian national choreographers: he was merited by his first national title of "Honoured Artist of Russia" and staged the official government concert at the Kremlin Palace of Congresses in 1987. In 1988 Vladimir Zakharov founded his theatre of dance "GZHEL". Since that time, his creative spirit and ideas, professional career, administrative skills, profound cultural knowledge and high educational mastercraft in ballet and choreography - he devoted to the Theatre of Dance Gzhel, to young ballet "sparkles" formation through the Ballet Academy he established under the Theatre Gzhel and to the global promotion of Russian Ballept and Russian National Culture and Traditions.
In 1994, he created University of Dance under the State Academy of Slavic Culture and became a Dean.
In 1998, he founded Moscow Ballet Academy Gzhel under the Theatre of Dance Gzhel.
Due to his academic efforts, in 1999 the Theatre was awarded by the Government the title "Academic" for achievements in ballet and choreography education.
In 2010, he founded a new Classical Ballet Group "Divertissement" under the Theatre of Dance Gzhel.
2004 - Monograph "Poetry of Russian Dance" Vol.1 and Vol.2 ;
2009 - Monograph "Poetry of Russian Dance" Vol.3 and Vol.4 ;
Works
;Staged ballets, concert programs for the Theatre of Dance Gzhel More than 100 choreography works and compositions were created for the below concert programs:
1998 concert program "Hello, Folks!"
2002 concert program "From Russia with Love"
2003 concert program "Moscow, the Gold-Domed"
2004 concert program "The Music-Hall, We are"
2006 concert program "My Flying over Russia"
2007 concert program "Eternel Russia"
2008 concert program "Bright Soul of Russia"
2009 concert program "With our Love for You"
2010 concert program "Cranes of Victory"
;Ballets and concert programs staged for other theatres
2010 Classical Ballet "Fairy Tale of Vasnetsov",depicting fairy-tale,folk and historical paintings by the famous Russian painter Victor Vasnetsov.
Chioreography by Vladimir Zakharov for the Ballet Theatre of Vyatka.
