Zasovsky biography

Interesting facts biography Zasursky 42 years were the dean of the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University, and then, until the last days of his life, was the president of the journalism department. Pupils of Yasen Nikolayevich Andrei Kolesnikov, Vladimir Yakovlev and Roman Super consider the guru of domestic journalism a man-angel who can do good in current circumstances, without waiting for their improvement.

Childhood and youth the future mentor of the stars of Soviet and Russian journalism was born on October 29 in Moscow in the family of Nikolai Vasilyevich Zasursky and his wife Tatyana Fedorovna in the girlishness of Makarova. Yasen's parents met while working in Warsaw. The father headed the “Council of Council” from the Soviet side, and the mother worked as a machine gunner in the apparatus of the USSR plenipotentiary in the Polish Republic of Peter Voikov, whose name is now bearing the Moscow Metro “Voikovskaya” metro.

Subsequently, Tatyana Fedorovna learned to be a gynecologist, and also took place as a medical journalist. Despite the very exotic name and surname, Yasen Nikolaevich was Russian by nationality. In an interview, the President of the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University claimed that his mother named him in honor of his father's clear eyes. Nikolai Vasilievich two years before the birth of his son, on the advice of the sister of Felix Dzerzhinsky, replaced the surname Storozhev to Zasursky, the choice of a new tribal name perpetuating the Sura River, which he lived in his childhood in the Penza province.

Already at preschool age, a native of Moscow began to experience interest in international politics and foreign languages. During the Civil War in Spain, the Front line was clarified on the map. Nikolai Vasilievich, who held a high post in the drug addict of heavy industry, has repeatedly visited the United States and told his son about trips. The boy was engaged in English with a tutor.

The war was clear in evacuation in Barnaul. They could not enroll Zasursky - Yasen did not have a certificate of maturity. However, by order of Professor Nikolai Scheodanov, a talented schoolchild was allowed to attend lectures, and after receiving the coveted certificate, at the age of 15, they were credited immediately to the second year. Scientific work and journalism at the age of 22 Zasursky defended his thesis on the topic “The path of Theodore Dreiser to Communism” and worked for two years as an editor in the publishing house “Foreign Literature”.

The death of the “leader of all peoples” forced the Soviet publicists to revise approaches to the coverage of life in capitalist countries and not only to call imperialists “bloody dogs”, but to select arguments and operate with facts. Subsequently, Zasursky called a decade after the death of Stalin the best in life. In the year, Yasen Nikolaevich headed the department of foreign journalism and literature.

In the year, the first dean of the Faculty of Journalism, Yevgeny Lazarevich Khudyakov, passed away, and colleagues begged Zasursky to occupy the chair of the leader. During the years of stagnation, the journalism faculty of Moscow State University was an island of free thought, where students were taught to think, compare arguments and facts. Yasen Nikolaevich believed that the correspondent and the reporter were obliged to fight with windmills, otherwise it makes no sense to go into this profession.

Another thesis of the Patriarch of Journalism: "A publicist can express his point of view for any censorship, if he has a well well." Zasursky is the author of 16 monographs. Yasen Nikolayevich united his newspaper articles from software articles to an interview with the post -perestroika flight in the book “Temptation of Freedom: Russian Journalism -”. In the same year, the journalist publishing house has published the book “Man-Culture”, which covered the biography of Zasursky.

Previous in his personal life Zasursky found happiness in his youth, taking the literary critic, a specialist in the culture of Czechoslovakia, a native of Krasnoyarsk Svetlana Sherlaimova. The wife gave the journalist the son of Ivan, but the dean treated all students as his native children. 11 days before the summer anniversary, Yasen Nikolaevich was widowed. Until the age of 60, the dean of the Faculty of Journalism was fond of cycling, and up to 80 years every morning ruined.

The death of a person-faculty died on the first August day of the year.

The grandson of Yasen Nikolayevich Ivan Zasursky, who holds the post of head of the department of new media and the theory of communication at the journalism department of Moscow State University, announced a sad event. The younger relative did not publish the cause of his grandfather’s death, but said that in September the Patriarch of Russian journalism planned to give lectures at his native faculty.

The farewell ceremony took place in the courtyard of the Faculty of Journalism. The grandson of Yasen Nikolayevich Ivan Ivanovich Zasursky was repeatedly criticized both for his career under the wing of his grandfather and for a respectful pose, accepted in front of the head of the “Young Guard” Ivan Demidov during a visit to him by Moscow State University and captured in the photo.