Education
Moscow Institute of Oriental Studies.
Moscow Institute of Oriental Studies.
He is best known for The Vladimirov Diaries, in which he recounted the events in Yan"an during the Second World War, particularly information on Mao Zedong. From May 1938 through to November 1945, he served as a correspondent for the Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (Telegraphic Agency of the USSR). At the same time, from May 1942 to 1945, Vladimirov also acted as a liaison officer for Communist International to the headquarters of the Communist Party of China in Yan"an, the capital of the so-called Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region.
In The Vladimirov Diaries, he recounted events in Yan"an during the Second World War.
The diary criticized Mao"s government and has been heavily edited for Soviet propaganda purposes. Vladimirov"s last appointment was as a Soviet ambassador to Burma (1952).
But, due to illness and death, he was unable to start working at that position. Vlasov was married to Maria Daniolvna Vlasova.
They had two sons, Boris and Yury (born 1935).
