For many years, Aleksey Adzhubey headed the editorial office of the Izvestia daily. During the years of his work, the publication became a symbol of the “Khrushchev thaw”. Even when absolute freedom of speech came in the 90s, former employees said with respect and admiration that “there has never been and never will be a leader like Aleksey Ivanovich.”
early years
Alexey Ivanovich Adjubey was born in 1924 in Samarkand. The father worked on the earth. Mother earned her bread by sewing and teaching. The family broke up when Alyosha was a small child.
Before the start of the war, the young man went to the Kazakh steppes on a geological expedition. Since 1942, the Red Army soldier Adzhubey served in the capital's military Song and Dance Ensemble. In peacetime, the young man decided to become an actor and graduated from the Moscow Art Theater School. The next step in his education was the Faculty of Journalism of the country's main university.
Career
In 1949, Alexei married Rada, the daughter of Nikita Khrushchev, who served as head of the Moscow City Party Committee. This event was decisive in the future career of a novice journalist.
In 1950, Adzhubey came to work at the editorial office of Komsomolskaya Pravda. He started out as a trainee, covering sports news, but soon found himself in the chair of the editor-in-chief. Colleagues joked: "Don't have a hundred rubles, but get married like Adjubei."
In 1959, Aleksey Ivanovich headed the editorial office of the Izvestia newspaper. For five years, the publication has increased its own circulation from 1,600,000 to 6,000,000 copies. The leader always had a "fountain of ideas", he "worked recklessly and enthusiastically."
The chief editor of "Izvestia" initiated the emergence of the organization "Union of Journalists of the USSR". He resumed the publication of the weekly Za abroad and created a new weekly newspaper Nedelya. It became the first publication in the USSR, which covered most of the issues not related to the political life of the country. Together with his colleagues, Aleksey published the book "Face to Face with America." The work tells about the visit of the head of the Soviet state to the United States. Adjubey was awarded the Lenin Prize for this work. During the same period, the son-in-law of the head of state prepared most of his reports and speeches.
After Khrushchev was removed from office, Adzhubei was stripped of all posts, removed from the members of the Party Central Committee and the Supreme Soviet. In the magazine "Sovetsky Soyuz", he headed the journalistic department, in which besides himself there were no employees. Adzhubei published the results of his work under the name Radin. For the last two years of his life, Aleksey Ivanovich headed the editorial office of the Tretye Estate newspaper. In 1993, the journalist died.
Personal life
In the biography of Adjubei, two marriages took place. The future famous actress Irina Skobtseva became the first wife of Alexei. The marriage of young people did not last long.
Soon Adzhubey became interested in Rada Khrushcheva, with whom he studied on the same course. Soon the girl became his wife. The couple had three sons. For almost 50 years Rada Nikitichna held the post of deputy editor-in-chief of the journal "Science and Life", headed the department of medicine and biology. During this period, the publication became one of the best and most popular in the country. After her husband fell into disgrace, she worked for a long time in the magazine "Soviet Union", although her name was not mentioned in the editorial board.
