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Correspondence, photographs, case studies, printed materials, posters of well known Russian emigre journalist Vladimir Kozlovsky. This collection reflects more than 40 years of his experience in the United States not only as a journalist but as a translator.
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Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Vladimir Kozlovskii Papers; Box and Folder; Bakhmeteff Archive, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.
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Purchase, Vladimir Kozlovsky, 2019.
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07/13/2020 Biographical note was written by Tanya Chebotarev and added to the record by Katia Shraga. Authorities updated, ksd
Vladimir Kozlovskii, Russian-American journalist and writer, was born in 1947 in Moscow (U.S.S.R.) in the family of the designer of the Soviet flame-thrower and a teacher of Russian literature and language. He studied Hindi, Urdu, Bengali and Sanskrit at the Moscow Institute of Oriental Languages and participated in anti-Soviet dissident activities.
In 1974, he immigrated to the United States and continued his education at Yale University and then graduated from CUNY graduate school with an advanced degree in political science.
He taught Russian language at Cornell University, Soviet subcultures at Yale University and Indian religions at the University of Utah. Since 1979 he worked as a New-York-based reporter for the BBC Russian Service.
After Perestroika, Vladimir Kozlovskii worked for several liberal Moscow newspapers specializing in U.S. politics in Russian crime in America. He also covered crime for the Russian-language newspaper Novoe Russkoe Slovo in New York.
While writing about 100 "Russian" trials in U.S. courts on the Eastern seaboard, he visited countless prisons and interviewed the heads of most Russian criminal groups in the U.S., including Viacheslav Ivankov, a notorious thief in law, who was believed to have connections with Russian State Intelligence Services, Boris Nayfeld, Russian mob boss and heroin trafficker, and Monya Elson, another notorious Russian mob.
Vladimir Kozlovskii authored many books including a dictionary of Russian criminal argot in four volumes and a dictionary of Russian gay slang. He lives and works in New York and Long Island.
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