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Andrey Borisovich Sholokhov (Russian: 'Андре́й Бори́сович Шо́лохов) is the founder and editor-in-chief of the Russian newspaper "University News", online newspaper vuzvesti.ru and almanacs "The high school of XXI". An author of a series of books on General Mikhail Skobelev, he is an honored worker of the Culture of Russia and the winner of a government award in the education field.
He was born on 23 September 1950 in Moscow in a family of a professor of Fine Arts and an engineer. In 1972 he graduated from the Moscow State University of Printing Arts from the editorial-publishing department and in 1982 he graduated from Military-polytechnic Academy from the journalistic department.
Since 1973 works as a journalist in newspapers, magazines, publishing houses. Since 1994, he is the editor-in-chief of "University News".