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Boris Balashov

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Resting place
  
Moscow, Russia

Citizenship
  
USSR

Language
  
Russian

Name
  
Boris Balashov

Nationality
  
USSR

Ethnicity
  
Russian



Occupation
  
journalist, Editor-in-Chief

Died
  
January 20, 1974, Moscow, Russia

Education
  
Saratov State University

Boris Aleksandrovich Balashov (Russian: Бори́с Алекса́ндрович Балашо́в; 7 December 1927 – 20 January 1974) was Editor-in-Chief of the Soviet magazine "Filateliya SSSR" ("Philately of the USSR").

Biography

Born in 1927 in the family of a worker. He started working at one of the Saratov plants, where he worked as a planer and, then, as an electrician.

After graduating from the Saratov State University, he was on the leading Komsomol work as a division head of the Saratov Regional Committee of VLKSM (Komsomol), and the editor of a provincial youth newspaper “Komsomolets”.

From 1958 to 1961, he worked as a head of the Press Section and, then, as a head deputy of the Propaganda and Agitation Division of the Central Committee of VLKSM.

At the later phase of his life, he was an Editor-in-Chief deputy and Editor-in-Chief for three Soviet magazines including "Filateliya SSSR" (1968–1974).

References

Boris Balashov Wikipedia