Background
ZHAROV, Aleksandr was born in 1904 in village Semenovskaya, now Moscow Oblast.
ZHAROV, Aleksandr was born in 1904 in village Semenovskaya, now Moscow Oblast.
Society Science Faculty, Moscow University.
1918-1920 member, All-Union Communist Youth League. Was member of Moscow Gubemiya Communist Youth League Committee. 1920 delegation 3rd Congress of Russia Communist Youth League.
During 1920's founder of young poets’ and writers’ organization “Molodaya gvardiya”. Traveled trough Western Europe, France, Italy, Czechoslovakia, etc. Criticized for being under the influence of “pettybourgeois poetry”.
1918-1925 Communist Youth League work. 1922-1925 contributor to number of almanacs, literary collections, and Central press. 1925-1927 Editor, journals “Komsomoliya” and “Smena”, then with Press Department, Moscow Oblast Communist Youth League Committee and Central Committee, Communist Youth League.
Contributor to newspaper “Komsomolskaya pravda”, and others. 1941-1945 with Navy in Black Sea, Arctic, and Far East.
Member, Communist Party, since 1920.
Member, Communist Party, since 1920.