Violina Atanasova is a doctor of history, assistant professor at the Institute for Historical Research at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. She was born on May 6, 1955 in the city of Varna. Graduated from the Institute for Asian and African Countries at Moscow State University "M. V. Lomonosov ”(1979). She defended her doctoral dissertation at the Institute of Oriental Studies at the USSR Academy of Sciences (1987). Participates in the compilation and editorial boards of a number of collections published by the Institute for Historical Research at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. She has been an editor of Historical Future magazine for many years. She has published articles and studies on the problems of Bulgarian-Indian relations and ideas about India in Bulgaria.