Yassen Zassoursky

Yassen Nikolayevich Zassoursky
Yassen Nikolayevich Zassoursky
Ясен Николаевич Засурский
Born	Yasen Nikolayevich Zasursky; October 29, 1929; Moscow, Soviet Union
Died	August 1, 2021 (aged 91); Moscow, Russia
Resting place	Troyekurovskoye Cemetery, Moscow
Education	Moscow State Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages (1948)
Occupations	Literary scholar; Media theorist; Journalist; Educator;
Years active	1951–2021
Employer	Moscow State University
Title	Dean of Faculty of Journalism, MSU (1965–2007); President of Faculty of Journalism, MSU (2007–2021);
Spouse	Svetlana Sherlaimova (1927–2019)
Children	1 son
Awards	See list Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 4th class (1999) ; Order of Friendship (2005) ; Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1980) ; Order of the Badge of Honor (1961, 1976) ; Order of Academic Palms (2002, France) ; Honored Journalist of the Russian Federation (2018) ;
	Scientific career
Academic advisors	Maurice Mendelson, Roman Samarin, Nikolai Chemodanov
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Yassen Nikolayevich Zassoursky (also Yasen Nikolayevich Zasursky; Russian: Я́сен Никола́евич Засу́рский; October 29, 1929 – August 1, 2021) was a Soviet and Russian literary scholar, media theorist, journalist, and educator. He held the degree of Doctor of Philological Sciences (1967) and the academic title of professor (1968). From 1965 to 2007, he served as dean of the Faculty of Journalism at Lomonosov Moscow State University, and from 2007 to 2021 as president of the Faculty of Journalism.

Zassoursky was one of the most influential figures in Russian journalism education and media studies. For several decades, he was deeply involved in international academic cooperation and maintained close professional ties with UNESCO, participating in expert commissions on communication, media systems, and global information flows, representing Russia in international research associations, IAMCR and many others. Through this work, he became part of a broad international intellectual network and played an important role in integrating Soviet and later Russian journalism studies into global scholarly discourse.

In 2018, he was awarded the honorary title Honored Journalist of the Russian Federation.