Born in the Stavropol Territory. He entered the Kuibyshev Polytechnic Institute. He mastered the specialty "Technology of basic and organic synthesis." After graduating from the institute, in 1973 Viktor Gerasimenko came to Togliatti. The young certified specialist was proud of the first entry in the work book: "trainee of the master of the workshop in the production of caprolactam of the Kuibyshev nitrogen-ore plant." Then Viktor Ivanovich did not know that the Kuibyshev nitrogen-fuel (the current Kuibyshevazot) would no longer let go of the talented chemist, opening up more and more career prospects for him from year to year. For twenty years, Viktor Gerasimenko went from shift manager to chief engineer.
In 1992, Gerasimenko took over as general director of the enterprise. He is a member of the Council of the Russian Union of Chemists, a member of the Board of the Samara and Togliatti Chambers of Commerce and Industry, Vice President of the Union of Employers of the Samara Region, a member of the Board of Trustees of Samara State Technical University, Chairman of the Board of Directors of River Port Togliatti JSC and a corresponding member of the International Academy of Business and the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences.