Yury Vlasov
- March 10, 2024
- Journalist
Quick Facts
| Date Of Birth | Dec 5, 1935(1935-12-05) |
| Age | 89 |
| Date Of Death | February 13, 2021, Moscow, Russia |
| Country | Ukraine |
| Horoscope | Sagittarius |
Yury Vlasov Biography
| Birthday | Dec 5 |
| Birth Year | 1935 |
| Place Of Birth | Makiivka |
Yury Vlasov is one of the most popular and richest Journalist who was born on December 5, 1935 in Makiivka, Makiivka, Soviet Union. As of June 1, 2023, Yury has a net worth approximately $5 Million. Vlasov had a brother Boris. He first married in 1957, to Natalia Modorova, a student of the Moscow Institute of Arts who was visiting his gym to draw athletes. They had a daughter Yelena. Vlasov remarried in 1976, after the death of his first wife, to Larisa Sergeyevna Vlasova, a student 21 years his junior. In his memoirs Vlasov mentions that he had another daughter, perhaps with Larisa. According to his 1960 Olympic teammate Boris Nikonorov Vlasov spoke fluent English at the Rome Olympics.
Yury was born in Makeyevka, Ukrainian SSR, to the family of Pyotr Vlasov (1905–1953), a military journalist and Komintern agent. His father worked as the General Consul in Shanghai and then the Ambassador to Burma. Both his parents were born in Russia.
At the peak of his popularity Vlasov was frequently included to international delegations visiting foreign leaders, such as Fidel Castro and Charles de Gaulle. He was a favorite of Nikita Khrushchev; Leonid Brezhnev offered him a position of a personal adviser on China, and Yuri Andropov was supervising his book The Vladimirov diaries: Yenan, China, 1942–1945 as it involved Soviet intelligence activities.
Yury studied at the Saratov Suvorov military school (1946–1953), then at the Zhukovsky Air Force Academy in Moscow, from which he graduated with honors in
- In 1956, while studying at the Academy he became interested in weightlifting, joined the Armed Forces sports society and soon became Master of Sport of the USSR (1957). He was noticed in 1958 when he finished third at the Soviet Union championships. Between 1959 and 1963 he won all the competitions he participated in, with a major success at the Rome 1960 Summer Olympics where he set three world records and became the first man to clean and jerk more than 200 kg (202.5). He was proclaimed the best sportsmen of the 1960 Olympics and the “Strongest Man on the Planet”. He was considered a nerdish intellectual in rim glasses, going against the stereotypes attached to weightlifting.
Yury Vlasov Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Journalist |
| House | Living in own house. |
Yury is one of the richest Journalist from Soviet Union. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Yury Vlasov 's net worth $5 Million.
Height, Weight & Body Measurements
| Height | 6 ft 1 in |
Yury Vlasov height 6 ft 1 in Yury weight Not Known & body measurements will update soon.
Yury Vlasov Wife
According to our records, Yury Vlasov married to Larisa Vlasova. As of January 12, 2023, Yury Vlasov’s is not dating anyone.
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Facts & Trivia
Yury Ranked on the list of most popular Journalist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Soviet Union. Yury Vlasov celebrates birthday on December 5 of every year.