Yury Yemelyanov

Yury Vasilyevich Yemelyanov was a Soviet-Russian historian and author, who was a Candidate of History Sciences. He was a laureate of the International Sholokhov Prize.

Life and career

Yemelyanov was born on 16 June 1937, into a family of Communist Party members. During the WWII he was evacuated to Barnaul. In 1960 graduated from MGIMO. He worked at IMEMO and Russian Academy of Sciences. He was also a member of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation.
He was Stalin's and Bukharin's biographer.
Aleksandr Kommari called him a Stalinist.
Yemelyanov died on 16 January 2026, at the age of 88.