Sports journalist and writer Vladimir Geskin died at the age of 74.

Sports journalist and writer Vladimir Geskin passed away at the age of 73. Hockey journalist Vsevolod Kukushkin told Izvestia about this on January 5.

"The saddest thing is that I have to confirm. Died. He was a wonderful man, kind and friendly. He was an enterprising and real journalist," Kukushkin said.

He noted that Vladimir Geskin loved life and his work to the last, lived with optimism and made new plans. Shortly before his death, they completed work on a new book together, the signal copy of which the author will no longer see.

"He left very quickly. Because, in general, he was not attentive enough to his, so to speak, ailments, which sometimes appeared and worried him," the journalist added.

Vladimir Geskin was a graduate of the Faculty of Journalism at Moscow State University and devoted more than 50 years to sports journalism, starting his career in 1974. He was one of the leaders of the newspaper Sovetsky Sport, and later became the co-founder and first deputy editor-in-chief of the newspaper Sport-Express. During his professional life, he covered nine Olympic Games, both summer and winter.

Geskin was also a writer. Among his works are the books "Who encroaches on the Olympic Flame" (1985) and "How Young we Drank" (2016). His contribution to journalism has been recognized by several professional awards.

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