page_title: Yulian Semyonov
section_title: Early life
hierarchical_section_title: Yulian Semyonov / Early life
caption_attribution_description: Русский: Юлиан Семенов и его отец
context_page_description: Yulian Semyonovich Semyonov, pen-name of Yulian Semyonovich Lyandres, was a Soviet and Russian writer of spy fiction and detective fiction, also scriptwriter and poet.
context_section_description: The father of Semyonov was Jewish, the editor of the newspaper "Izvestia", Semyon Alexandrovich Lyandres. In 1932 he was arrested as "an accomplice of the Bukharin counterrevolutionary conspiracy" and severely beaten during the interrogations; he became partially paralyzed as the result. His mother was Russian, Galina Nikolaevna Nozdrina, a history teacher.
  In 1953 Semyonov graduated from Moscow Institute of Oriental Studies, the Middle-East department.
  Then he taught the Afghan language (Pashto) in Moscow State University and simultaneously studied there in the faculty of history.
caption: Yulian Semyonov (left) and his father, Semyon Alexandrovich Lyandres  (date unknown)
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