Yuri Ilyich Druzhnikov
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Yuri Ilyich Druzhnikov was born Yuri Izrailevich Alperovich on the 17 April 1933 in Moscow
Moscow
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, USSR. He died on the 14 May 2008 in Davis
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, California
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.

In his lifetime, he worked as an actor, a photographer, an editor, a journalist and travel correspondent, as an author and as a professor of Russian. He was also the vice-president of the American branch of the International PEN
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club.
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