Yury Yemelyanov

Yury Vasilyevich Yemelyanov (; 16 June 1937 – 16 January 2026) was a Soviet-Russian historian and author, who was a Candidate of History Sciences (1979). He was a laureate of the International Sholokhov Prize (2003).

Life and career Yemelyanov was born on 16 June 1937, into a family of Communist Party members. During the WWII he was evacuated to Barnaul. In 1960 graduated from MGIMO. He worked at IMEMO and Russian Academy of Sciences. He was also a member of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation.

He was Stalin's and Bukharin's biographer.

Yemelyanov died on 16 January 2026, at the age of 88.На 89-м году жизни ушёл Юрий Васильевич Емельянов — настоящий историк советской школы, коммунист, лауреат Ленинской премии

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