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Yulia Alexandrova

Yulia Alexandrova

Yulia Alexandrova (1965, Riga, Latvian SSR) – a journalist of Russian-language publications, teacher.

She was born in Riga on 7 January 1965, graduated from the faculty of philology of the University of Latvia. Started her journalist career in the newspaper  «Sovetskaya Molodezh» (Soviet Youth) , which was transformed into “Vesti Segodnya”.

Julia Alexandrova took part in many journalist competitions, has awards for her stories (1994, 2012). She was head of the Department of education in the newspaper. The key topics of her research are “Russians of Latvia”, where she investigates the contribution of the Russians into the foundation of the Russian community and the fate of Russian emigration in Latvia.

Some of Julia Alexandrova's publications