Andrej Andreevich Zolotov is a

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screenwriter and music and art critic born in 1937, who has written over 30 documentaries about Russian musicians, composers and conductors. Today he is the vice president of the

Russian Academy of Arts Russian Academy of Arts (RAA / rus. РАХ, Росси́йская акаде́мия худо́жеств) is the State scientific Institution of Russian Federation, eligible heir to the USSR Academy of Arts. A founder of RAA is the Governmen ...

.Золотов-старший Андрей Андреевич: http://www.kino-teatr.ru/kino/screenwriter/sov/373093/bio/ The main belt asteroid 8142 Zolotov is named after him.

Biography and career

Zolotov was born in Moscow in 1937. He studied journalism at the

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, and then worked at numerous Soviet-era publications including ''

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'' and the TV series ''

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''. He eventually attained the rank of Assistant Minister of Culture between 1990 and 1992. After the fall of the USSR he became the chief editor of

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in 1994. As of 2012, he is the vice president of the

.Russian Academy of Arts official webpage on him http://www.rah.ru/the_academy_today/the_members_of_the_academie/member.php?ID=17647&sphrase_id=17027 He has two sons - Andrej Zolotov Jr., journalist, and Vsevolod, architect - and one daughter - Olga, concert pianist.

References

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