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Yuri Andreyevich Zhdanov (Russian: Ю́рий Андре́евич Жда́нов; 20 August 1919 – 19 December 2006) was a Soviet and Russian chemistry professor and rector of the University of Rostov. He was the son of Soviet politician Andrei Zhdanov and a former husband of Joseph Stalin's daughter, Svetlana Alliluyeva.
Soviet dancer and ballet director. He studied at the Bolshoi Ballet School, graduating in 1944 into the Bolshoi Ballet. He was promoted to principal in 1951 and was Ulanova's regular partner, starring with her in the Bolshoi Ballet film of Lavrovsky's Romeo and Juliet (1954). He also partnered Struchkova and Plisetskaya.
May 19, 2021 · Yuri Zhdanov, 67, was arrested in March on accusations of abusing his work obligations for personal gain by recommending social housing to a family that turned out to have previously received it.
Feb 17, 2022 · Yuri Zhdanov is the father of Ivan Zhdanov, the former leader of Aleksei Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation. He was detained by police in late March 2021 in the south Russian city of Rostov-on-Don and subsequently sent to the region of Arkhangelsk.
Feb 17, 2022 · A court in Russia’s Nenets Autonomous Okrug has overturned a three-year suspended sentence previously handed down to Yuri Zhdanov — the 67-year-old father of Alexey Navalny’s top aide Ivan Zhdanov — and replaced it with time in prison.
Jan 17, 2022 · Yuri Zhdanov, the father of Ivan Zhdanov, the director of the Anti-Corruption Foundation, was arrested on spurious charges of “forgery” and “large-scale fraud” in March 2021. Aleksei Navalny faces further bogus charges and up to 15 additional years in prison on top of his current sentence.
Yuri Zhdanov was born on 29 November 1925 in Moscow, Russia. He was an actor, known for Romeo & Juliet (1955) and Stars of the Russian Ballet (1954). He died on 9 April 1986 in Moscow, Russia.
