Journalist Arkady Sosnov died in St. Petersburg.

Arkady Sosnov, a St. Petersburg journalist, editor and writer, died after a long illness. This was announced on April 20 on the website of the Union of Journalists of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region.

Sosnov was born in 1948 and graduated from the Leningrad Technological Institute named after Lensovet with a degree in chemical engineering. Since 1976, he has worked in journalism, was a correspondent for several newspapers, and was the editor-in-chief of the Russian Patron magazine.

He wrote the books "Newfound Nature", "Energy of the Earth" and was the author of the book "The Alferov Gate". Sosnov was also a recipient of the USSR Union of Journalists Award and the St. Petersburg State University Christmas Prize for Humanism in Journalism.

Since 1978, he was a member of the Union of Journalists of the USSR and was a member of the board of the Union of Journalists of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region. He was the initiator of the creation of the Sobkor Guild.