At the age of 87, film critic, film critic and television commentator Yuri Bogomolov has died. About this April 14 informed TASS his son, director Konstantin Bogomolov.
“Yuri Alexandrovich is gone. It happened early this morning,” he said.
Yuri Bogomolov was born on March 9, 1937 in Leningrad. In 1965 he graduated from the film studies department of VGIK (Alexander Groshev’s studio) and began publishing in 1964.
Since 1971 he has worked as a senior researcher at the Institute of Art History (now the State Institute of Art Studies). From 1998 to 2004 he held the position of head of the culture department of the newspaper Izvestia.
Bogomolov was the author of articles in the newspapers Sovetskaya Kultura, Literaturnaya Gazeta, Moskovskiye Novosti, magazines Art of Cinema, Soviet Screen, Film Studies Notes, Seans. He worked as a TV columnist for Rossiyskaya Gazeta, as a columnist for RIA Novosti and Snob magazine, and as a writer for The New Times. Among the works of the film critic are the books “Artistic Time on TV”, “Chronicle of Diving Television”.
Yuri Bogomolov is a laureate of the Union of Cinematographers and the Free Press Academy. In 2009 he received the Nika Award for his contributions to film science, criticism and education.
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