Yuri Zhukov

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Yuri Aleksandrovich Zhukov (Russian: Юрий Александрович Жуков; also Георгий Александрович Жуков; 1908-1991) was a prominent journalist and political figure in the Soviet Union.

Best known as an editor and columnist for the Soviet daily "Pravda", Zhukov served as the newspaper's Paris correspondent in 1948-1952. From 1952 to 1957 he was the Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the newspaper. In the late 1950's he was a speechwriter for Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev.

Zhukov was also a prominent political figure in the USSR, serving as a Supreme Soviet representative from the North Caucasus republic of Kabardino-Balkaria. In 1957 he was appointed as Chairman of the Soviet State Committee for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries, hosting Vice President Richard M. Nixon on an unofficial visit to the Soviet Union July 23 - August 2 1959 to open the American National Exhibition in Sokolniki Park in Moscow. In the 1980s he was Chairman of the Soviet Peace Committee.

He was a candidate member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.