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Gildina Zoya Moiseyevna (1903)

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SurnameGildina
NameZoya
PatronymMoiseyevna
Birth year1903
SexF

Gildina Zoya Moiseyevna (b. 1903 – date of death unknown) – editor and lecturer.

From 1920 to 1922, Zoya Gildina worked in Perm Governorate as an editor of youth newspapers. Between 1922 and 1927, she was based in Moscow, where she edited the newspaper Molodoy Leninets (Young Leninist), and later worked in Leningrad as deputy editor of Smena and head of a department at Leningradskaya Pravda. From 1928 to 1941, she was based in Moscow, working in the editorial offices of Pravda, For Collectivisation, and Rabochaya Moskva (Working Moscow).

After graduating from the Institute of Red Professors, she headed the department of contemporary foreign literature at Goslitizdat (the State Publishing House for Fiction). Between 1944 and 1949, she served as head of the foreign literature editorial office at Latgosizdat (Latvian State Publishing House) and also lectured at MGIMO (Moscow State Institute of International Relations).

In 1949, Zoya Gildina moved to Riga, where she was appointed Associate Professor at the Latvian State Pedagogical Institute. From 1958 onwards, she served as Associate Professor in the Faculty of History and Philology at the Latvian State University. Honoured as a Distinguished Cultural Worker of the Latvian SSR.