Yulian Semyonov

His journalistic career was full of adventures, often dangerous ones – at one time he was in the taiga with tiger hunters, then at a polar station, and then at the Baikal-Amur Mainline construction and diamond pipe opening.He was constantly at the center of important political events of those years – in Afghanistan, Francoist Spain, Chile, Cuba, Paraguay, tracing Nazis who sought cover from punishment, and Sicilian mafia leaders; taking part in the combatant operations of the Vietnamese and Laotian partisans.Then, being the "Literaturnaya Gazeta" newspaper correspondent in Germany, the writer succeeded in interviewing the reichsminister Albert Speer and one of the SS leaders Karl Wolff.Being the most precious thing one can ever possess, freedom finding is accompanied by such resistance against the essence and movement of the perestroika, that there is nothing else left to do but to stare and amaze ...The writer's full filmography numbers more than 20 filmed works (Major Whirlwind (1967), Seventeen Moments of Spring (1973), Petrovka, 38 (1980), TASS Is Authorized to Declare... (1984), Confrontation (1985), ...), which continue to be hits of the Russian cinema.
Yulian Semyonov (left) and his father, Semyon Alexandrovich Lyandres (date unknown)
Yulian Semyonov and his friends, Andrei Mironov (right) and Lev Durov (Crimea, date unknown)
Semyonov' grave on the Novodevichy Cemetery
Semyonov' memorial museum house in Oliva
MoscowRussian SFSRSoviet UnionSeventeen Moments of SpringSovietspy fictiondetective fictionStierlitzIzvestiaMoscow Institute of Oriental StudiesPashtoMoscow State UniversityPersian historySoviet newspapers and magazinesOgoniokPravdaLiteraturnaya GazetaKomsomolskaya PravdaBaikal-Amur MainlineFrancoist SpainSicilian mafiaVietnameseLaotianInvestigative journalismOtto SkorzenyAlbert SpeerKarl WolffAmber RoomMoskovskaya PravdaPress Agency "Novosti"Georges SimenonJames Aldridgevon Falz-FeinAndrei MironovLev DurovEduard von Falz-FeinFeodor Ivanovich Chaliapin'sDiaghilev'sLivadia PalaceRoyal FamilyperestroikaStalin's cult of personalityVasily LivanovVitaly SolominSergey Vladimirovich MikhalkovNovodevichy CemeteryVladimir SolovyovPatriarch Alexius's IIRussian Orthodox ChurchArtyom BorovikAlexander MenGleb YakuninLev PonomaryovCrimeaE. PrimakovV. LivanovN. MikhalkovL. AnninskyVladimir ShlapentokhYulian Semyonov bibliographyMajor WhirlwindPetrovka, 38TASS Is Authorized to Declare...ConfrontationSolarisAndrei TarkovskyHedrick SmithNew York Times