Yuri Druzhnikov
Yuri Ilyich Druzhnikov (in Russian: Юрий Ильич Дружников) was born Yuri Izrailevich Alperovich on the 17 April 1933 in Moscow, USSR. He died on the 14 May 2008 in Davis, California. In his lifetime, he worked as an actor, a photographer, an editor, a journalist and travel correspondent, as an author and as a professor of Russian. He was also the vice-president of the American branch of the International PEN club.
Also recorded as Yuri Alperovich · Jurij Alʹperovič · Yuri Ilyich Druzhnikov
Yuri Druzhnikov
- Born
- 1933 · Moscow.
- Died
- 2008 · Davis.
- Nationality
- Soviet Union · United States
- Occupation
- journalist · writer · university teacher · literary historian · slavist · editor · literary scholar
- Fields
- creative and professional writing · children's and young adult literature · journalism · history of literature
- Languages
- Russian
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Yuri Ilyich Druzhnikov (in Russian: Юрий Ильич Дружников) was born Yuri Izrailevich Alperovich on the 17 April 1933 in Moscow, USSR. He died on the 14 May 2008 in Davis, California. In his lifetime, he worked as an actor, a photographer, an editor, a journalist and travel correspondent, as an author and as a professor of Russian. He was also the vice-president of the American branch of the International PEN club.
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Born at Moscow in 1933, died in Davis in 2008.
The recorded working language is Russian. The field of work recorded is creative and professional writing, children's and young adult literature and journalism. Employment is recorded with University of California, Davis.
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Bibliography printed in the source article · 6
- Informer 001: The Myth of Pavlik Morozov [Доносчик 001, или Вознесение Павлика Морозова] (1996)
- Prisoner of Russia [Узник России. По следам неизвестного Пушкина] (1998)
- Contemporary Russian Myths: A Skeptical View of the Literary Past (1999)
- Angels on the Head of a Pin [Ангелы на кончике иглы] (2002)
- Madonna from Russia [Суперженщина, или, Золотая корона для моей girl friend] (2003)
- Passport to Yesterday (2004)
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