Tonkovyd Yuvgen Mykhailovych was born in 1937 in the city of Kirensk, Irkutsk region, in the family of employees. In 1937, my family moved to the city of Kiev in connection with the transfer of his father to work at the Dnipro Shipping Company.
In 1944 entered secondary school №21, graduated in 1954.
After graduating from school and before 1961 he worked as a driver at various state institutions. From 1956 to 1959 served in the ranks of the Soviet Army. Since 1961 he has been enrolled in the Institute of Geophysics of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR for the position of technician, while in 1964 he studied at the correspondence department of the Geological Faculty of the KSU. After graduating from the KSU in 1970, he was transferred to the position of senior engineer of the Laboratory of Electromagnetic Investigation of the Earth's Crust and Mantle of the Institute of Geophysics. At present, I am working as a leading engineer in the Depth of Earth Processes and gravimetry department.