| Boris Aleksandrovich Balashov Бори́с Алекса́ндрович Балашо́в | |
| Birth Date: | 7 December 1927 |
| Birth Place: | Saratov, USSR |
| Death Place: | Moscow, USSR |
| Resting Place: | Moscow, Russia |
| Occupation: | journalist, Editor-in-Chief |
| Language: | Russian |
| Education: | Diploma of Higher Education |
| Alma Mater: | Saratov State University |
| Subject: | philately |
Boris Aleksandrovich Balashov (Russian: Бори́с Алекса́ндрович Балашо́в; 7 December 192720 January 1974) was Editor-in-Chief of the Soviet magazine "Filateliya SSSR" ("Philately of the USSR").
Born in 1927 in the family of a worker. He started working at one of the Saratov plants, where he worked as a planer and, then, as an electrician.
After graduating from the Saratov State University, he was on the leading Komsomol work as a division head of the Saratov Regional Committee of VLKSM (Komsomol), and the editor of a provincial youth newspaper “Komsomolets”.
From 1958 to 1961, he worked as a head of the Press Section and, then, as a head deputy of the Propaganda and Agitation Division of the Central Committee of VLKSM.
At the later phase of his life, he was an Editor-in-Chief deputy and Editor-in-Chief for three Soviet magazines including "Filateliya SSSR" (1968–1974).[1]