He graduated from the Leningrad Naval School[1] in 1948 and the faculty of journalism of the Lenin Military-Political Academy in 1954, and served on submarines of the Baltic Fleet and the Pacific Ocean Fleet.

Beginning in 1957 he worked for newspapers, including The Soviet Fleet, the Red Star, and Pravda.

[2] He fought in the Bay of Pigs Invasion and was a friend of Cuban General Raúl Castro.

His widow is Ariadna Bazhova (born 1925), daughter of the Russian writer Pavel Bazhov.

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