Valery Kulikov was born on 1 September 1956 in
Zaporizhzhia, then in the
Ukrainian SSR,
Soviet Union. In 1974, he began active military service in the border troops. In 1980 he graduated from the
Black Sea Higher Naval School named after P.S. Nakhimov and received a referral to the
Black Sea Fleet. In 1994, he graduated from the
Kuznetsov Naval Academy. He held the positions of battery commander on the patrol ship
Pylky, commander of a missile and artillery warhead on patrol ships
Pylky,
Razitelny, and
Ladny, and was a senior assistant commander of the patrol ship
Bezzavetny and missile cruiser
Slava, and commander of the missile cruisers
Admiral Golovko and
Moskva, the commander of a brigade of landing ships, and the head of the combat training directorate of the Black Sea Fleet, and headed the combat training directorates of the
Baltic Fleet and the Navy. Since February 2010, Kulikov was the acting commander of the
Caspian Flotilla. On 29 September 2010, Rear Admiral
Sergei Alyokminsky was appointed the new commander. In 2013, with the rank of Rear Admiral, by decree of Russian President
Vladimir Putin, Kulikov was appointed Deputy Commander of the Black Sea Fleet. By the decree of the President of the Russian Federation of 5 May 2014 No. 302, by Putin, Kulikov was awarded the military rank of Vice Admiral. On 19 September 2017, by the decree of the
Governor of Sevastopol,
Dmitry Ovsyannikov, Kulikov was vested with the powers of a member of the Federation Council - a representative of the executive body of state power of
Sevastopol. On 26 September 2017, by presidential decree, Kulikov was relieved of his post as deputy commander of the Black Sea Fleet and dismissed from military service with the rank of vice admiral. On 13 September 2020, as a candidate from
United Russia, he won with a score of 43.35% in
the by-elections to the
Legislative Assembly of Sevastopol in district No. 2, which remained vacant for several months after
Yekaterina Altabayeva was approved as the representative of the Legislative Assembly in the Federation Council. He left the Federation Council on 2 October 2020. ==References==