Yuri Ilyich Druzhnikov (in Russian: Юрий Ильич Дружников) was born Yuri Izrailevich Alperovich on the 17 April 1933 in
Moscow
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USSR
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. He died on the 14 May 2008 in
Davis
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California
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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.[Biography of Yuri Druzhnikov on his website](_blank)
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Bibliography
* ''Informer 001: The Myth of Pavlik Morozov'' оносчик 001, или Вознесение Павлика Морозова(1996)
* ''Prisoner of Russia'' зник России. По следам неизвестного Пушкина(1998)
* ''Contemporary Russian Myths: A Skeptical View of the Literary Past'' (1999)
* ''Angels on the Head of a Pin'' нгелы на кончике иглы(2002)
* ''Madonna from Russia'' (2003)
* ''Passport to Yesterday'' (2004)
References
1933 births
2008 deaths
Writers from Moscow
Soviet emigrants to the United States
Soviet dissidents
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