{{Infobox writer | name = Boris Aleksandrovich Balashov<br />Бори́с Алекса́ндрович Балашо́в | image = | imagesize = | alt = | caption = | pseudonym = | birthname = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1927|12|7}} | birth_place = Saratov, USSR | death_date = {{Death date and age|1974|1|20|1927|12|7}} | death_place = Moscow, USSR | resting_place = Moscow, Russia | occupation = journalist, Editor-in-Chief | language = Russian | education = Diploma of Higher Education | alma_mater = Saratov State University | period = | genre = | subject = philately | notableworks = | spouse = | partner = | children = | relatives = | awards = }} '''Boris Aleksandrovich Balashov''' ({{langx|ru|Бори́с Алекса́ндрович Балашо́в}}; 7 December 1927{{spaced ndash}}20 January 1974) was Editor-in-Chief of the Soviet magazine ''"Filateliya SSSR"'' (''"Philately of the USSR"'').

== Biography == Born in 1927 in the family of a worker. He started working at one of the Saratov plants, where he worked as a planer and, then, as an electrician.

After graduating from the Saratov State University, he was on the leading Komsomol work as a division head of the Saratov Regional Committee of VLKSM (Komsomol), and the editor of a provincial youth newspaper ''“Komsomolets”''.

From 1958 to 1961, he worked as a head of the Press Section and, then, as a head deputy of the Propaganda and Agitation Division of the Central Committee of VLKSM.

At the later phase of his life, he was an Editor-in-Chief deputy and Editor-in-Chief for three Soviet magazines including ''"Filateliya SSSR"'' (1968–1974).<ref>{{cite journal|author=Anonymous| date=March 1974 |script-title=ru:Памяти товарища|journal=Филателия СССР|issue=3|pages=46|language=ru}}</ref>

== See also == * Filateliya

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== External links == * {{cite web|url=http://www.balashoff.com/1926-1950.html|script-title=ru:Балашов Борис Александрович. 1926 год — 1950 год|accessdate=2009-10-28|work=Балашовы от А до Я. Единая информационно-электронная база данных носителей фамилии Балашов (Balashov)|publisher=Балашовъ|language=Russian|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101028041752/http://www.balashoff.com/1926-1950.html|archive-date=2010-10-28|url-status=dead}}

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