Georgiy Georgievich Semyonov

Background

Georgiy Georgievich Semyonov (Yuri) was born on November 17, 1919 in Moscow, Russian Federation.

Education

Georgiy Georgievich graduated from high school in Voronezh where his parents worked for a while. He graduated from the Military Institute of Foreign Languages in Moscow in 1941 and took an external degree at the Higher Diplomatic School to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the USSR in 1943.

Career

Georgiy Georgievich worked as an advisor to the Embassy of the USSR in China. He was unreasonably subject to repress in 1947.

In the period from 1953 to 1970 Georgiy Georgievich lived in Voronezh. He worked as a translator at the SK Factory named after S.M. Kirov (SK is an initialism of "Skafandr Kosmicheskiy" in Russian which means a spacesuit). He was the head of the fiction department at the Central Black Earth Book Publishing House for a number of years. He published his translations of Chinese folklore and classical literature in Podyom magazine.

From 1970, Georgiy Georgievich lived in Chisinau where he worked as a columnist for Sovetskaya Moldavia newspaper and editor at Cartya Moldovenenyaske publishing house, editor at Moldova-Film studio. He also translated from Moldavian into Russian for publishers, magazines, theaters.

Connections

Daughter:

ulia Georgievna Semyonova