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Galina Kostikova

Journalist and editor in Uzbekistan: executive secretary of “Tashkentskaya pravda” and first editor-in-chief of the weekly “Biznes-vestnik Vostoka”.

Occupation:
Writer, Publicist
Born:
1938 — October 2, 2017

Biography

Galina Aleksandrovna Kostikova was born in 1938. Her working life belonged to the press of Uzbekistan: for many years she was executive secretary of the newspaper “Tashkentskaya pravda”.

She repeatedly set up new publications. She launched the weekly “Biznes-vestnik Vostoka” and became its first editor-in-chief, and she founded and edited a newspaper for children, “Klass”. Later she headed the magazine “Tasvir” and then worked on the content and materials of the magazine “Zdravstvuyte”.

Kostikova died in a road accident in Tashkent on 2 October 2017, a few months short of her eightieth birthday.

Career

Life path

  1. 1938
    Born

    Her birthplace is not given in open sources.

  2. Many years
    Executive secretary of “Tashkentskaya pravda”

    She held the post of the paper's executive secretary for many years.

  3. Years not given
    Weekly “Biznes-vestnik Vostoka”

    She built the publication from scratch and was its first editor-in-chief.

  4. Years not given
    Newspaper “Klass”

    She founded and edited a newspaper for children.

  5. Years not given
    Magazines “Tasvir” and “Zdravstvuyte”

    She first headed “Tasvir”, then shaped the content of “Zdravstvuyte”.

  6. 2017
    Death

    On 2 October she died in a road accident in Tashkent.

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