Zoya Krylova

Zoya Petrovna Krylova (; 6 April 1944 – 8 June 2017) was a Russian journalist and politician. She worked at the Moskovskij Komsomolets and Komsomolskaya Pravda newspapers and was editor-in-chief of the Rabotnitsa magazine. Krylova was an elected people's deputy of the Congress of People's Deputies of the Soviet Union and a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. She was a recipient of the Order of Friendship of Peoples and the Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945".

Early life and education Krylova was born on 6 April 1944 in the village of Ivanteyevka, Moscow Oblast, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. She was a 1967 graduate of the evening department of the MSU Faculty of Journalism at the Moscow State University and did her postgraduate studies as a candidate of philosophical sciences at the Academy of Social Sciences under the Central Committee of the CPSU in 1984.

Career In 1960, she began working in Moscow in a variety of jobs. Krylova was a kindergarten teacher, accountant at the Housing Office in the Zamoskvorechye District, of the People's Court of the Pervomaisky District, courier for Profizdat, duty electrician at the Mosochistvod Trust's pumping substation, collector at the Institute of Geology and Fossil Fuel Development and was a freelance correspondent. She was a literary contributor to the editorial office of the Moskovskij Komsomolets newspaper from 1962 to 1966. From 1983 to 2008, Krylova was editor-in-chief of the Rabotnitsa magazine. serving on the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union.

Personal life She was married to the physicist and had a son. Krylova died on 8 June 2017 and her funeral took place the following day at the Novobogorodskoe Cemetery near Elektrougli, in the village of , Noginsky District.

Awards She was a recipient of the Order of Friendship of Peoples, the Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" and two awards of the Russian Union of Journalists.