Belarusian scientist in the field of tectonics and geology of oil and gas, Doctor of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences (1986). Laureate of the State Prize of the Belarusian SSR (1978), laureate of the Presidium of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus (1997).
Viktor Stepanovich Konishchev was born on March 2, 1936 in the village of Lukashkin Yar, Tomsk region of the RSFSR.
In 1959, he graduated from the Geological and Geographical Faculty of the Kirov Kazakh State University.
In 1959-1960, he was a collector of the Ustyurt–Kulandinsky oil exploration of the Aktobe Oil Exploration Trust, then until 1964 he was a district geologist, senior geologist in the geological exploration organizations of the Emben oil exploration expedition.
Viktor Konishchev has been living and working in Belarus since 1966.
In 1966-1970 . He worked in Gomel, in the complex thematic party of the Belnefterazvedka trust. In 1970-1972, he was a senior geologist and head of the group of the thematic party of the Belorusneft association.
Since 1972, Viktor Stepanovich has been working as a senior researcher at the Institute of Geochemistry and Geophysics of the Academy of Sciences of the Byelorussian SSR. Research interests: tectonics of salt dome and oil and gas bearing areas. He is the author of scientific works on salt tectonics, tectonics and oil and gas potential of the Pripyat trough and areas of halokinesis of ancient platforms. Konishchev wrote 13 monographs, the first of which – "Salt tectonics of the Pripyat trough" – was published in 1975.
In 1985 in Minsk, Viktor Stepanovich successfully defended his doctoral dissertation on "Tectonics of the regions of halokinesis of ancient platforms" and in 1986 moved to the position of chief researcher. Konishchev qualified the salt structures of the Pripyat trough, studied the areas of halokinesis of ancient platforms and revealed the features of their deep structure and the structure of the crystalline basement, subsalt, salt-bearing and suprasalt structures and the mechanism of their formation. Viktor Stepanovich is a co–author of a number of geological and tectonic maps of Belarus and the Eastern European Platform.
Since 2003, V.S. Konishchev has been working concurrently as a professor at the Department of Dynamic Geology of the Belarusian State University. The scientist gives lectures to students on "Geology of oil and gas", "The doctrine of geological formations" and "Drilling techniques".