Zhukov Yuri Alexandrovich - a well-known international journalist, a talented publicist and translator, who in Soviet times was awarded the title Hero of Socialist Labor. In 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. Yekaterinoslavskaya province became his homeland, as it housed a small station, Almaznaya, Slavianoserbsky 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 work 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 assistant engineer.
But a year later, in 1927, Yuri Zhukov got a job as a literary employee in the editorial office of two newspapers: Luganskaya Pravda and Komsomolets Ukrainy. For four years, he not only successfully worked as a literary employee, but then as the head of the department of these newspapers.
Education
But while working in well-known newspapers, Yuri A. Zhukov studied at the Lomonosov Metropolitan Automobile and Tractor Institute. In 1932, he completed his studies and immediately went to the Gorky Automobile Plant. He has been working as a design engineer for some time.
Journalist career
As soon as his studies at the institute were completed, Yuri Aleksandrovich became the head of the department of the well-known newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda, still remaining a literary employee of this newspaper.
But after a year, he changes his place of work and becomes a correspondent for the popular magazine Our Country. In 1940, for successful work, he became the head of the department of this magazine. The Great Patriotic War makes its changes in the life of a successful and talented journalist.
From 1941 until the end of the war, Zhukov Yuri Alexandrovich was a war correspondent. And in 1946 he became a member of the editorial newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda. In the same year he began to work in the popular newspaper Pravda. It was in this newspaper that his journalistic career began to grow rapidly. At first he was only a literary employee, but very soon he began to combine this position with the position of deputy executive secretary.
During nine years of work in the newspaper Pravda, 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 increase: he became deputy chief editor.
Now Yuri Alexandrovich was known not only as a columnist, 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 at the Council of Ministers of the USSR. He was responsible for 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 famous 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 the television program, which was successfully broadcast on Channel One.
Books by Yuri Zhukov
In the early 1960s, Yuri Alexandrovich tried his hand at translation activities. He translates French fiction into Russian. Among his translations are the works of such famous writers of France as Herve Bazin, Robert Sabatier and others.
It is known that after Alexander Solzhenitsyn published his work The Gulag Archipelago abroad, he actively participated in exposing the writer. It was Yuri Alexandrovich, whose homeland was the Yekaterinoslav province, and he himself later suffered from censorship, which existed in Soviet times.
So, from his story “The Beginning of the City”, which was devoted to how the construction of Komsomolsk-on-Amur took place, one of the chapters was excluded. In the chapter “Difficult days of 1937”, the famous journalist and writer Zhukov, who was awarded the Lenin Prize for his successes in journalism and writing, described mass repressions. But Yuri Alexandrovich tried to get this chapter back and even wrote to the Central Committee of the CPSU, where he calls R. Izmailov 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 tankers who were able to get from Moscow to Berlin itself. Since this work is documentary, the characters are real people who showed all their best qualities in the war. These tank forces were commanded by Marshal Katukov, who was only a guard general. For his courage, the character of the documentary story was twice awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union. Yuri Zhukov describes in detail not only the front-line path of his hero and tank troops, but also paints a picture of the battles near Voronezh and the Kursk Bulge, near Moscow and at the state border.
Particular attention in this documentary story is required by the chapter “Polish Notebook”, where the author recreates in detail, documented and very accurately the picture of the last months and days of the war, and also describes how the battle for Berlin was going on.
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 talks about the fate of fighter pilots who fought bravely and bravely during the years of World War II. One of the heroes of this story is Pokryshkin, who was known during the war years, but for all time, the air marshal for his courage and bravery has become three times Hero of the Soviet Union. This book was released in a circulation of 100 thousand and quickly sold.
The first work "Hartraktorostroy" journalist and writer Yuri Zhukov was published in 1931 in the journal "Young Guard". A talented journalist wrote and published over 50 works. Since 1962, Yuri Alexandrovich also became a deputy of the Supreme Council. Over the course of 27 years, he has become a party to the 6-11 convocations.
Since 1982, for five years, he chaired the Peace Committee. Since 1958, he was first a member of the board, and ten years later, and president of the USSR-France society.
