The burial ceremony of Zasursky's ashes was postponed to September

MOSCOW, Aug 10. Burial of the ashes of the President of the Faculty of Journalism of the Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov Yasen Zasursky is postponed to September, his son Ivan Zasursky told RIA Novosti. «Tomorrow nothing will happen, it will be postponed to September,» he said. Yasen Zasursky died on August 1 at the age of 92. He was the last of the teachers who worked at the Faculty of Journalism since its foundation. Zasursky was born in 1929 in Moscow. For more than 40 years (1965-2007) Zasursky was the dean of the faculty. On Tuesday, farewell to him took place in the courtyard of the journalism department. Zasursky was awarded two Orders of the Badge of Honor (1960, 1976), the Order of the Red Banner of Labor (1980), the UNESCO Gold Medal of Mahatma Gandhi, as well as Russian and foreign medals. He was twice a laureate of the Lomonosov Prize. A bust of Zasursky will be installed at the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University By the decree of the President of Russia on October 29, 1999, for his great personal contribution to the training of highly qualified personnel for domestic journalism, Zasursky was awarded the Order of Merit to the Fatherland, IV degree. He was also a laureate of the 2005 Government Prize in the field of print media, in 2006 — a laureate of the Triumph Prize for encouraging the highest achievements of literature and art. Zasursky's relatives and closest people. After the funeral service in the courtyard of the faculty, a public farewell took place and flowers were laid at Zasursky's coffin. Among the laid wreaths are compositions from the presidential administration, the Union of Journalists of Russia, the rector of Moscow State University, students and teachers. «It seemed that he would always be.» The president of the journalism faculty of Moscow State University, Yasen Zasursky, dies