Vladimir Stepanovich Ikonnikov (Russian: Владимир Степанович Иконников) or Volodymyr Stepanovych Ikonnykov (Ukrainian: Володимир Степанович Іконников) was a historian in Imperial Russia and Soviet Ukraine specializing in study of historiography. Ikonnikov was an academician of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences, a professor and a dean of the History and Philology faculty of Kiev University, and an academic at the All-Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. He was born in Kiev in the family of a landlord, who belonged to the regional nobility. In 1852–1861, Ikonnikov studied at the Kiev Kadet Scho