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In the 1960s–1970s Semyonov worked abroad a lot as a reporter of the said editions (in France, Spain, Germany, Cuba, Japan, the US, Latin America). 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
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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 ... It seems as if the desire to be held again by the "hard hand" is brewing ...
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opened the experimental Moscow theatre "Detective". There were staged thrilling plays and children's performances. In 1992, Y.S. Semyonov being already seriously ill, the company was directed by Livanov and the unique theatre was closed due to the ownership
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Semyonov got the chance to cover the pages of the Soviet history which used to be a forbidden subject before. In 1988 there appeared the essay collection "Closed History Pages" and "Unwritten Novels", the philippic narrative about the times and morals of
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In 1989 Semyonov founded the first private (i.e. uncontrolled by the government) Soviet edition – the "Top Secret" bulletin ("Sovershenno sekretno"), then becoming its editor-in-chief with the symbolic royalty of 1 rouble per
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After gaining an interpreter's degree at the university, Semyonov had diplomatic business in East Asian countries, continuing at the same time his scientific studies at Moscow State University (specializing in
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After the sudden stroke in 1990, Semyonov became bedridden and could not return to work ever again. Y.S. Semyonov died on 15 September 1993 in Moscow. He was buried in the
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During all his life Semyonov wrote screenplays for films, mainly for the ones after his own works. The writer's full filmography numbers more than 20 filmed works (
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In 2011 in honor of the 80th anniversary from the day of the writer's birth, the Semyonov Cultural Foundation and Union of Journalists of Moscow established the
1043: 555:— the volume contains Yulian Semyonov's works which were not published before or little known ones. The short stories "Baron", "Commentary on Skorzeny", 299:
and other cultural treasures moved abroad from Russia during World War II, were published by Semyonov in his documentary story "Face to Face" in 1983.
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construction and diamond pipe opening. He was constantly at the center of important political events of those years – in Afghanistan,
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Stories about the Father. Yulian Semyonov through the Eyes of his Daughter" (directed and screenplay by Alevtina Tolkunova, 2011)
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Autocracy, exalting "the great, the brilliant and the outstanding" causes a catastrophe. And we know it by our own experience.
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In 1986, Semyonov became the President of the International Association of Detective and Political Novel (Russian:
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in Soviet periodicals. In 1974 in Madrid he managed to interview a Nazi criminal, Hitler's favorite
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and other famous members of the International Amber Room Searching Committee achieved wide renown.
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based on the historical documents, eyewitnesses' accounts and the author's personal experience.
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In 2007 the writer's younger daughter Olga Yulianovna Semyonova opened her father's
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officials' collaboration with the KGB. Soloviev referred to information provided by
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Yulian Semyonov (left) and his father, Semyon Alexandrovich Lyandres (date unknown)
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and played an important role in popularization of the detective genre in the USSR.)
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annual Yulian Semyonov Award in the field of critical geopolitical journalism
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His interviews, as well as his investigations regarding the searches for the
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Since 1955 he started to try his hand at journalism: he was published in key
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A Portrayal of Bureaucracy in Twelve Parts: Seventeen Moments of Spring
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Birgit Beumers; Stephen C. Hutchings; Natalia Rulyova (2008).
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Detective fiction,spy fiction, historical novels, non-fiction
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Soviet Intellectuals and Political Power: the Post-Stalin Era
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Middle-East department. He then taught the Afghan language (
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and simultaneously studied there in the faculty of history.
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The Julian Semenov Cultural Foundation website (in Russian)
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Semyonov's father was Jewish, the editor of the newspaper "
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to prevent him from publishing the materials about Moscow
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leaders; taking part in the combatant operations of the
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Semyonov's participation in searching for the famous
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His wife Ekaterina Sergeevna was a step-daughter of
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