Zhukov Yuri Aleksandrovich, Soviet international journalist: biography, books, awards

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Zhukov Yury Alexandrovich is a well-known international journalist, a talented publicist and translator, who was awarded the title of Hero of Socialist Labor in Soviet times. During the terrible war years, he was always at the forefront, writing his notes and essays. For his activities, he was awarded medals and orders.

Childhood

Yuri Alexandrovich was born in April 1908 in the Russian Empire. Yekaterinoslav province became his homeland, as there was a small Almaznaya station of the Slavyanoserbian district, where the family of the future journalist lived. Little is known about his parents. So, the father of the future famous journalist was a clergyman, but later he began to teach at school.

First experience

It is known that Yuri Alexandrovich went to work early. So, in 1926 he worked in the Lugansk branch of the Donetsk railway. Since he was still young and inexperienced, he became an assistant driver.

But a year later, in 1927,Zhukov Yury Alexandrovich gets a job as a literary employee at once in the editorial office of two newspapers: Luganskaya Pravda and Komsomolets Ukrainy. For four years he not only worked successfully as a literary collaborator, but then as the head of the department of these newspapers.

Education

But while working in well-known newspapers, Yury Alexandrovich Zhukov also studied at the Lomonosov Automotive and Tractor Institute in the capital. In 1932, he graduated from his studies and immediately went to the Gorky Automobile Plant. He has been working as a design engineer for a while.

Journalist career

As soon as he completed his studies at the institute, Yuri Aleksandrovich became the head of the department of the well-known newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda, while still remaining a literary employee of this newspaper.

But a year later he changes his job and becomes a correspondent for the popular Our Country magazine. In 1940, for successful work, he became the head of the department of this magazine. The Great Patriotic War brings its own changes to the life of a successful and talented journalist.

Starting from 1941 and until the very end of the war, Yury Zhukov was a war correspondent. And in 1946 he became a member of the editorial newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda. In the same year, he began working in the popular newspaper Pravda. It is in this newspaper that his journalistic career will rapidly begin to grow. At first he was only a literary collaborator, but very soonbegan to combine this position with the position of Deputy Executive Secretary.

During nine years of work in the Pravda newspaper, he tried himself in different directions. So, for two years he was a columnist, and then in 1952 he was a correspondent in France. In 1952, a new promotion: he became deputy editor-in-chief.

Now Yury Alexandrovich was known not only as an observer, but he successfully established himself as an international journalist. Of course, his successful work was noticed, and in 1957 he was appointed chairman of the State Committee under the Council of Ministers of the USSR. He was in charge of cultural relations with foreign countries.

In 1962, Zhukov, a journalist who is already known not only in our country, but also abroad, returns to the well-known newspaper Pravda and becomes a political observer.

TV career

In 1972, Yuri Alexandrovich began to work on television. So, he becomes the author and host of a television program that was successfully broadcast on Channel One.

Books by Yuri Zhukov

In the early 1960s, Yuri Alexandrovich tried his hand at translation. He translates French fiction into Russian. Among his translations are the works of such famous French writers as Herve Bazin, Robert Sabatier and others.

It is known that after Alexander Solzhenitsyn published his work "The ArchipelagoGULAG", then he actively participated in the denunciation of the writer. It was Yuri Alexandrovich, whose birthplace was the Yekaterinoslav province, who later suffered from the censorship that existed in Soviet times.

So, one of the chapters was excluded from his story "The Beginning of the City", which was devoted to how the construction of Komsomolsk-on-Amur took place. In the chapter "Difficult Days of 1937", the well-known journalist and writer Zhukov, who was awarded the Lenin Prize for his achievements in journalism and writing, described mass repressions. But Yuri Alexandrovich tried to get this chapter returned and even wrote to the Central Committee of the CPSU, where he names R. Izmailova as his co-author.

In 1975, the Moscow edition of "Soviet Russia" published the work "People of the forties. Notes of a war correspondent. It tells about the feat of the tankers, who were able to walk from Moscow to Berlin itself. Since this is a documentary work, the heroes are real people who showed all their best qualities in the war. These tank troops were commanded by Marshal Katukov, who was only a general of the guard. For his courage, the character of the documentary was twice awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. Yuri Zhukov describes in detail not only the front-line path of his hero and tank troops, but also draws pictures of the battles near Voronezh and on the Kursk Bulge, near Moscow and on the state border.

Special attention in this documentary story requires the chapter “Polish Notebook”, where the author recreates in detail, documentary and very accurately the picture of the last months anddays of the war, and also describes how the battle for Berlin went.

In 1979, the Moscow edition of DOSAAF published a documentary story by Yuri Zhukov. In his work “One “moment” out of a thousand”, the author tells about the fate of fighter pilots who bravely and courageously fought during the Great Patriotic War. One of the heroes of this story is Pokryshkin, who was famous during the war years, but for all the time the air marshal for his courage and courage became three times Hero of the Soviet Union. This book had a circulation of 100,000 and sold out very quickly.

The first work "Khartraktorostroy" by journalist and writer Yuri Zhukov was published in 1931 in the magazine "Young Guard". The talented journalist has written and published more than 50 works. Starting in 1962, Yuri Alexandrovich also became a deputy of the Supreme Council. For 27 years, he has become a member of 6-11 convocations.

Since 1982, for five years, he was chairman of the committee for the protection of peace. Since 1958, he was first a member of the board, and ten years later, the president of the "USSR-France" society.

Awards for journalist Yuri Zhukov

The first award of the famous and popular journalist Yuri Alexandrovich was the Lenin Prize, which he was awarded in 1960. And already in 1978 he was awarded the title of Hero of Socialist Labor.

In addition to these awards, the award box of the famous and talented journalist also has the orders: the Red Star, the Red Banner of Labor, the October Revolution and the GreatPatriotic war of the second degree. In 1988, Yuri Alexandrovich was awarded the Order of Friendship of Peoples. The famous writer-publicist also has many medals.