Yuri Senkevich Biography

Yuri Aleksandrovich Senkevich was born on March 4 in the city of Bain-Tumen Mongolia, where his father Alexander Osipovich and mother Anna Kupriyanovna worked as a doctor and nurses. In the year he graduated from the Military Medical Academy of Leningrad and was sent to work as the head of the military unit. In the year, he was transferred to Moscow to the Institute of Aviation and Space Medicine of the Ministry of Defense of the USSR, and in the year was seconded to the Institute of Medical and Biological Problems of the USSR Ministry of Health, where he worked for up to a year.

In the first group of research doctors, Yu. Senkevich, a full course of preparation for space flight. With the city of more scientific papers on the problems of aviation and cosmic psychophysiology. Candidate of Medical Sciences. Colonel of the medical service in reserve. In the years, Yu. Senkevich participated in the Soviet Antarctic expedition to the Vostok station, in the GG.

In travels, Yu. Senkevich conducted unique research on the study of the physiological state of a person and interpersonal relations in extreme conditions with prolonged isolation. In subsequent years, he took an active part in the medical support of the expedition to the North Pole in the city in the year, Yuri Alexandrovich was invited to central television as the host of the Transfiguration Club of Travelers, since then he has become a “person” of the program for the Russian viewer.

An enthusiastic storyteller, a brave traveler, he made the transfer of one of the most beloved by the audience. Yuri Aleksandrovich is involved in the formation of a thematic plan, organizing filming, selecting plots and speakers. With filming groups, he visited many countries, on all continents of the Earth. Since the fall, it is an adviser to the chairman of the Supreme Council of the Russian Federation Ruslan Khasbulatov, with whom he was familiar during the teaching activities of Khasbulatov, on medicine and international humanitarian aid.

From the software - the chairman of the board of the Russian newspaper JSC. In April, he became one of the founders of the Public Association of the Club of Travelers. In March, he was elected chairman of the public commission, whose task was to evaluate the sculptural compositions of Zurab Tsereteli in Moscow. C - President of Medstroyinvestbank. In the year, Yuri Senkevich was elected academician of the Russian Television Academy, his program "Travelers Club" was awarded the highest award of Russian television "TEFI", many international prizes, entered into the Guinness Book of Records.

Senkevich was awarded the Order of Friendship of Peoples, the Order of "Badge of Honor", the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" of the fourth degree, Orders of a number of foreign states and many medals. Yuri Senkevich - Laureate of the All -Russian Prize "Crystal Globe". Member of the Union of Journalists of Russia, co -chair of the Foundation of International Humanitarian Assistance and Cooperation.

Russian spectators were again able to see the most amazing and unusual places on Earth with the help of a "club of travelers." Yuri Senkevich died on September 25 in the year of his life. He was buried in the Novodevichy cemetery.