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Alexei Ivanovich Adzhubei
Alexei Ivanovich Adzhubei (January 9, 1924, Samarkand - March 19, 1993, Moscow)

Soviet journalist, publicist, editor-in-chief of the Komsomolskaya Pravda (1957-1959) and Izvestia (1959-1964) newspapers. Deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union, member of the of Central Committee of Soviet Union Communist Party. Son-in-law to Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev.

Biography

The carriers of the Adzhubei family have Turkic roots. He was born on January 9, 1924 in Samarkand.

In the years 1940-1941, Adzhubei worked on a geological exploration expedition in Kazakhstan. From 1942 he served in the Red Army in the Song and Dance Ensemble of the Red Army in the Moscow Military District.

After the war, he studied at the Moscow Art Theater School (he was in the same year and close friends with the famous actor Oleg Efremov). After graduating in 1947, he decided to enter the newly formed journalism faculty of Moscow State University.

In 1949, Adzhubei married his fellow student Rada, the daughter of Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev. Thanks to the patronage of Khrushchev, Adzhubei's career took off: in 1950, he came to work at Komsomolskaya Pravda as an intern in the sports department, but quickly rose in the ranks and achieved the position of Editor-in-Chief. In Moscow at the time there was a proverb: “You needn’t have a hundred friends, if you marry like Adzhubei”.

On May 14 1959 Adzhubei was appointed Editor-in-Chief of the Izvestia newspaper. The paper soon became one of the symbols of the “Khrushchev Thaw”. Starting with a circulation of 1,600,000 copies, by October 1964 the circulation of Izvestia exceeded 6,000,000.

In 1959 Adzhubei initiated the creation of the Union of Journalists of the USSR.

He also participated in the preparation of speeches for Nikita Khrushchev.

In 1960 Adzhubei wrote the book Face to Face with America, about Nikita Khrushchev's trip to the USA, together with co-authors N.M. Gribachev, G.A. Zhukov, L.F. Il’ichev, for which they were awarded the Lenin Prize.

On June 18 1960 he resumed the publication of the weekly newspaper entitled ‘Abroad’ with the help of the USSR Union of Journalists.

From 1960 he organised the publication of a weekly magazine ‘The Week’, which was the only non-political publication of its kind in the USSR, at that time and for many years to come.

At the XXII Congress of the Central Committee of Soviet Union Communist Party in October 1961 he was elected a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

On August 17 1963, he published the poem “Terkin in the Other World" by Aleksandr Tvardovsky in Izvestia, which was banned at the time.

Journalist Leonid Mlechin wrote about Adzhubei “He belonged to a rare breed of newspaper editors who work passionately, overflow with ideas and know how to inspire their colleagues. The circulation of the newspaper reached a fantastic 8 million copies, while at the same there was a limit on subscription... I also worked in Izvestia in the mid-1990s, 30 years after Adzhubei, when complete freedom of speech reigned. But the old ‘Izvestians’ recalled Alexei Ivanovich with respect and admiration: “There will never be another such editor at Izvestia”.”

After Khrushchev was removed from all his top party positions, Adzhubei was also removed from his posts. On November 16 1964, at the Plenum of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, he was removed from the Central Committee of the Communist Party and allocated the position head of journalism at the Soviet Union Magazine (there were no other employees in the department). He was allowed to write under the pseudonym Radin.

From 1992 until the end of his life, Adzhubei was the Editor-in-Chief of the newspaper 'Tretiye Sosloviye', which can be translated as The Commons.

He died on March 19 1993 in Moscow and was buried at Vvedenskoe Cemetery (20th plot).

Awards

Order of Lenin (04.05.1962)

Medal "For Bravery in Labour" (25.12.1959) [6]

Medal "For the Defence of Moscow" (1944) [7]

medal "For the Victory over Germany" (1945) [8]

As well as others

Family

1st wife - Irina Konstantinovna Skobtseva, then a student [9].

2nd wife (from 1949) - Rada Nikitichna Adzhubei (1929–2016), Soviet and Russian journalist, graduated from the Moscow State University 1952. Head of the department (1953-1961), deputy Editor-in-Chief (1961-2004) of the Science and Life Journal. Daughter Nikita Khrushchev.

Had three sons: Nikita (1952–2007), Alexei (1954-) and Ivan (1959-).

His father, Ivan Adzhubei, was from a peasant Ukrainian family, became a professional singer and singing teacher in St Petersburg, died in 1939.

His mother, Nina Matveevna was a dressmaker, was divorced from Ivan Adzhubei in 1926, married again to M. Ganeev, a lawyer. Died in 1970.

Bibliography / Works

"Face to face with America" (1960)

"Day of Peace" (1961)

"Those Ten Years" (1989)

“The Collapse of Illusions. Time in Events and Faces"(1991)