His family was from Bessarabia. In 1973 he emigrated to Israel, where he studied film and television at Tel Aviv University. In 1978 he moved to Great Britain, where he spent most of his life. For almost thirty years - from 1978 to 2007 - Yuri worked in the BBC system. Yuri Goligorsky's career began as a program assistant, then an anchor of the news programs of the BBC Russian Service, and by the end ofhis work in this well- known organization he became the Manager of the Development Department in the Department of America and Europe of the BBC World Service. In the 1990s. Yuri Goligorsky is the editor-in-chief of the BBC World Service broadcasting to the region of the former USSR. He took an active part in the cre- ation ofregional offices of the BBC in Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova, the Republics of Central Asia, Russia and Ukraine. In the early 2000s - Chief Editor of the Broadcasting Network for Central Asia and the Caucasus of the BBC World Service. Combining journalism with administrative work, our guest established and maintained relations with BBC partners in the states of the former USSR. Yuri Samuilovich is one of the pioneers in organizing direct radio broadcasts. In 1988, he organized and hosted the only live radio show, "The British Prime Minister with Listeners of the Soviet Union" (with Margaret Thatcher), which lasted more than an hour. Mik