Yuri Ilyich Druzhnikov (in Russian: Юрий Ильич Дружников) was born Yuri Izrailevich Alperovich on the 17 April 1933 in

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. He died on the 14 May 2008 in Davis,

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.Obituary on the University of California Website
/ref> 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
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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 {{Russia-writer-stub