In the 1960s–1970s Semyonov worked abroad a lot as a reporter of the said editions (in France, Spain, Germany, Cuba, Japan, the US, Latin America).

His journalistic career was full of adventures, often dangerous ones – at one time he was in the taiga with tiger hunters, then at a polar station, and then at the Baikal-Amur Mainline construction and diamond pipe opening.

He was constantly at the center of important political events of those years – in Afghanistan, Francoist Spain, Chile, Cuba, Paraguay, tracing Nazis who sought cover from punishment, and Sicilian mafia leaders; taking part in the combatant operations of the Vietnamese and Laotian partisans.

In 1974 in Madrid he managed to interview a Nazi criminal, Hitler's favorite Otto Skorzeny, who had categorically refused to meet any journalist before.

Then, being the "Literaturnaya Gazeta" newspaper correspondent in Germany, the writer succeeded in interviewing the reichsminister Albert Speer and one of the SS leaders Karl Wolff.

Being the most precious thing one can ever possess, freedom finding is accompanied by such resistance against the essence and movement of the perestroika, that there is nothing else left to do but to stare and amaze ...

The writer's full filmography numbers more than 20 filmed works (Major Whirlwind (1967), Seventeen Moments of Spring (1973), Petrovka, 38 (1980), TASS Is Authorized to Declare... (1984), Confrontation (1985), ...), which continue to be hits of the Russian cinema.