Yuri Senkevich

Yuri Aleksandrovich Senkevich (Russian: Юрий Александрович Сенкевич) (March 4, 1937 in Choibalsan, Mongolia – September 25, 2003 in Moscow, Russia[1]) was a Soviet doctor, and scientist. He is a Candidate of Sciences (PhD equivalent degree). Became famous in the USSR and worldwide for his participation in the Ra Expedition, in which he sailed together with Thor Heyerdahl.[2]

This name uses Eastern Slavic naming customs; the patronymic is Aleksandrovich and the family name is Senkevich.
Yuri Aleksandrovich Senkevich
Yuri Senkevich, Leonid Kolotilo and Thor Heyerdahl, the Congress of the Russian Geographical Society in Arkhangelsk. year 2000. In the foreground standing sideways is Thor Heyerdahl's wife.
Born(1937-03-04)March 4, 1937
Choibalsan, Mongolia
DiedSeptember 23, 2003(2003-09-23) (aged 66)
Moscow, Russia
NationalityRussian
Occupationscientist, TV presenter
The crew of the reed boat Tigris in 1978. Thor Heyerdahl is sitting and on the right the Soviet doctor Yuriy Senkevich in yellow short trousers.

Senkevich was born to Russian parents in Mongolia. In 1960, he graduated from the Military Medical Academy in Leningrad.[3] After his graduation, he received an assignment as a military doctor. In 1962, Senkevich started at Moscow Institute of Aviation and Cosmic Medicine of the Ministry of Defence. On June 1, 1965, he was selected into Medical Group 2 (along with Yevgeni Illyin, Aleksandr Kiselyov) for the long-duration Voskhod flights in space, all of which were subsequently canceled to make way for the Soviet Moon program. All three were dismissed at the beginning of the following year. He continued his career in that field at the Institute of Medical and Biological Problems of the Ministry of Public Health. From 1966 to 1967, he participated in the 12th Soviet Antarctic expedition at Vostok station.

In 1969, Thor Heyerdahl invited Senkevich to sail on the Ra papyrus boat, and later on Ra II in 1970. Yuri Senkevich also sailed on the Tigris across the Indian Ocean.

In 1973, Senkevich began his career as a host of the "Travelers' Club" (Клуб путешественников), a show on the Soviet Central Television. During the 30 years, he visited as a journalist more than 200 countries. For his lifetime contribution to the television, he was awarded "TEFI", a prize of Russian Academy of Television, in 1997. Yuri Senkevich is in the Guinness Book of Records as "the world's longest serving TV anchorman".

He had a son, Nikolay Senkevich, who later became head of the NTV channel. He died of heart failure.[4][5]

References
  1. Умер Юрий Сенкевич
  2. Когда в гостях был целый мир. Статья о Юрии Сенкевиче и «Клубе путешественников». Официальный сайт Всемирной энциклопедии путешествий
  3. Юрий Александрович Сенкевич. Московский Государственный Институт Индустрии Туризма
  4. Yuri Senkevich, 66; Host of Russian TV Show Made Documentaries
  5. В Новодевичьем монастыре состоялось отпевание Юрия Сенкевича
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