Yuri Borisovich Ryurikov - writer-publicist, critic. Candidate of Philology, Sociologist. Member of the Writers' Union of the USSR since 1967. Since the mid-1960s. wrote books on sociological journalism on the themes of love and marriage. Author of 10 books and many articles.
Yuri Ryurikov was born into a family of writers, his father is the famous Soviet critic Boris Ryurikov, editor-in-chief of Literaturnaya Gazeta and the journal Inostrannaya Literatura; grandfather, Sergei Terentyevich Semyonov, a self-taught peasant writer. Yuri graduated from the philological faculty of Moscow State University in 1951. He began to publish in 1953 at first as a literary critic. He has written on science fiction topics, producing several articles and reviews. In 1961 he wrote the once influential book "In 100 and 1000 Years". Then he moved on to the themes of love and marriage, for which the journalists called him "Amurologist", although the author himself called his science of love "amorology". He lived in Moscow.