Vladimir Sungorkin died – Newspaper Kommersant No. 170 (7371) of 15.09.

Vladimir Sungorkin, editor-in-chief of Komsomolskaya Pravda, died yesterday at the age of 69. He was born in Khabarovsk, graduated from the Faculty of Journalism of the Far Eastern State University. Fame came to him in the late 1970s after a series of reports from the construction of the Baikal-Amur Mainline. In 1997, he was elected editor-in-chief of Komsomolskaya Pravda and held this position until the end of his life.

Vladimir Sungorkin was able to save Komsomolskaya Pravda after the collapse of the USSR. He turned it into a popular tabloid with a network of regional newsrooms; came up with “fatty” – a voluminous Friday issue of the newspaper; one of the first among the Russian media made a bet on the development of the Komsomolskaya Pravda website as an independent publication. According to colleagues, Mr. Sungorkin “until his last day remained an incorrigible traveler” – and died during an expedition to Primorye. “He was a patriot, an extraordinary, creatively gifted, talented person,” President Vladimir Putin expressed his condolences.