About the author

TAVROVSKY Yuri Vadimovich was born in 1949 and was raised in different parts of Soviet Union where his father served in the military – Dnepropetrovsk (Ukraine), Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Leningrad. In 1971 Tavrovsky graduated from Leningrad State University,  Chinese Language Department of the Oriental Faculty. At the University he was translating and writing commentaries to Chinese Classics – “Daode jing”, ”Zhong Yong”, “Da xue”.   Graduation paper on history of early Buddhism in China was based on his translation of “Si shi er zhang jing” (“Sutra in 42 Chapters”). Before the gradoation he polished his knowledge for one year at the Chinese Language Center, Nanyang University in Singapore.  

Upon the graduation in 1971 Tavrovsky started to work for Chinese Department of Radio Moscow International. 7 years later he joined the New Times weekly, the major Soviet publication on foreign affairs writing on China, Japan, Vietnam and other Asian countries. For 6 years Tavrovsky was bureau chief of the New Times weekly.

In 1987 Tavrovsky was sent back to Moscow to work in the International Information Section, Ideology Department of the CPSU (Communist Party of the Soviet Union) Central Committee. He was responsible for Soviet propaganda to China, Japan, Korea and the rest of Asia-Pacific, as well as coverage of Asian affairs in Soviet mass-media. He took part in preparations for Secretary-General Mikhail Gorbachev visit to China in 1989 and accompanied him in Beijing.

After collapse of CPSU and USSR in 1991 Tavrovsky  worked  as foreign policy analyst  in Izvestiya daily, Editor-in-chief of the Vestnik magazine published by the Foreign Policy Association, head of  Information features department in the Russian State TV Company. For 10 years (1999 –2009) he was Editor-in-chief of the Diplomat illustrated monthly in parallel English and Russian published by the Russian Foreign Ministry.

Upon retirement at the age of 60 Tavrovsky was lecturing at the Russian Friendship University and Moscow Foreign Languages University as a visiting professor, coordinating Russo-Chinese TV projects in the Eurasian Academy of Television and Radio and writing analytic papers for the Izborsk Club think tank. Since 2019  Yury Tavrovsky heads the Experts Council of the Russo-Chinese Committee for Friendship, Peace and Development.

In 2019 Tavrovsky was awarded the Prize for contribution of Chinese Literature abroad.

 

Yury Tavrovsky”s major publications:

Book: American Cold War against China, Moscow, 2020

Book: Xi Jinping. The New Epoch, Moscow, 2018

Book: “New Silk Road – the Greatest Project of the 21-st Century”, Moscow, 2017, Beijing, 2017

Book “Xi Jinping: step by step to the China Dream”, Moscow, 2015, Beijing, 2016

Book. “China, Russia and their neighbors. New millennium”, Moscow, 2015,

Book. “Wonderful China. Recent travels to the Middle Kingdom”, Moscow, 2014,

Book. “Two-storied Japan. 2000 days on the Japanese Islands”, Moscow, 1990,

Book.  “Different faces of Japan”, Moscow, 1990,

                   Photo album. “Japan – seasons of change”, Moscow, 1991.