Dmitry Kholodov

Dmitry Kholodov

Dmitry Yuryevich Kholodov (Russian: Дми́трий Ю́рьевич Хо́лодов; 21 July 1967, Zagorsk – 17 October 1994, Moscow) was educated as a physicist and began his working life, alongside his parents, at the defence industry institute in Klimovsk in the Moscow Region. Faced by limited career prospects he turned to journalism, first working for the local radio. In 1992 he became a reporter with the national Moskovsky Komsomolets daily newspaper. He was murdered while investigating alleged corruption among high ranks of the Russian military.