Petr Alekseevich Kotov (born July 12, 1955, Leningrad, USSR) - Soviet and Russian journalist, writer.
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He graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Culture as a director of theatrical mass shows, but almost all further work activity was connected with the press.
In his youth, he collaborated with the Leningrad newspapers Izhorets, For Technical Progress, Skorokhodovsky Worker, Leningradskaya Pravda, Smena, Leningradsky Worker, Gudok, etc. He worked as a special correspondent for the Oktyabrskaya Mainline newspaper, own correspondent for the North-West of the USSR newspaper of the CPSU Central Committee "Construction newspaper". In 1987 he joined the Union of Journalists of the USSR.
For many years he worked in the newspaper "Evening Leningrad" ("Evening Petersburg") as head of the department, deputy general director, and editor-in-chief of the Sunday application "Fontanka". He became the author of the first interview and the first published photograph of the future president of Russia, Vladimir Putin , who came out in "Evening Leningrad" on August 5, 1991. [1]
In the summer of 1996, after the loss of Anatoly Sobchak in the election of the governor of St. Petersburg, Peter Kotov was “offered to resign on her own will,” as the newspaper took an active position on Sobchak’s side.
After his dismissal from the "VP" worked in various media of St. Petersburg and Russia. In 1998, he resumed the release of the Evening Paper (published in St. Petersburg from 1866 to 1881), which he published until March 2003. During these years he took part in election campaigns. He worked as an assistant to the deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation B.V. Gryzlov .
In 2003-2004, he headed the state television and radio company Pskov.
In 2004 he was appointed chief editor of the Parliamentary Newspaper .
In 2006, a collection of essays on the Duma of the Tauride Palace was published under the editorship of the editor-in-chief of PG, to the 100th anniversary of the First State Duma, in which a number of articles by the editor-in-chief were published.
In 2011, P. Kotov wrote the historical novel “Past the Buyan Island” (under the pseudonym Peter Mogunov). [2] In the work of art, on the basis of historical facts, it is told about the liberation of the Danish island of Bornholm by the Red Army in May 1945 and the subsequent presence of Soviet troops on the island. The novel was translated into Danish by a famous writer and historian, Professor Bent Jensen, together with his wife. Published in Denmark by the publishing house Hovedland in 2014 under the name “Island and Country”. [3] In the same year, based on the novel, the script "The Last Ferry to Copenhagen" was written.
In 2015, the novel “Bornholm Triangle” (in Latvian) appeared in Latvia in the publishing house “Jumava”.
Member of the Writers' Union of St. Petersburg, a member of the Union of Journalists of Russia.
He was awarded the Diploma of the State Duma of the Russian Federation.
He is married, has an adult son and daughter. Lives and works in St. Petersburg.
Notes
- “Foreign partners are different”: The first interview with Vladimir Putin. August 1991 - Meduza (Rus.) , Meduza . The date of circulation is July 12, 2017.
- ↑ A novel by Peter Mogunov (Kotov) "Past the Buyan Island" , Rosbalt was presented in the capital . The date of circulation is July 12, 2017.
- ↑ Øen og landet: FORLAGET HOVEDLAND Neopr . hovedland.dk. The date of circulation is July 12, 2017.