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Tunik Yury Vladimirovich was born in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) on October 3, 1947. In 1965 he graduated from the usual school in the small town of Moscow region and entered the mechanical mathematics Department of Moscow State University by name M. V. Lomonosov (MSU). In 1970 Yu.V. Tunik received higher education and continued study at the graduate school of the same faculty. In 1976 he defended his candidate thesis on gas dynamic lasers and in 2002 the thesis "Dynamics of combustion in two-phase methane containing media" on competition of a scientific degree of the doctor of sciences in physics and mathematics. Since 1974, he works as a researcher in the Research Institute of Mechanics of MSU. His scientific interests lie in the field of mathematical and numerical modelling of detonation combustion and its use in aerospace technology. Last 40 years he is a leading researcher. Yu.V. Tunik is married with two children and five grandchildren.