[4] Skorokhodov graduated from the Moscow State University (MSU) Faculty of Journalism.

In the 1960s, he was the author and director of the main edition of the literary and drama programs of the Soviet Union and worked as a reporter and editor in the state recording studio Melodiya.

From 1993 to January 2002, he led the transfer of Raiders of the Lost (in Russian) on Channel One Russia and NTV; in 1994–95, he hosted the program Old news on radio station Nadezhda; and from 2002 to 2005 he hosted Gleb Skorokhodov's Film history on RTR.

[1] Skorokhodov authored books on Faina Ranevskaya, Klavdiya Shulzhenko, Leonid Utesov and other artists.

On October 13, a funeral service was held at the Cathedral of Cosmas and Damian in Shubin (Moscow), then the writer's body was cremated at Khovanskoye Cemetery.