Fatima Aleksandrovna Salkazanova Papers
Scope and Content Note
The greater part of the Salkazanova collection, some 955 items, consists of typescripts for a variety of programs that aired on Radio Liberty in Paris where Salkazanova worked as a reporter and host. These materials range in date from 1977 through 1985. Some of the scripts feature revisions in ink. Other, less-extensive series in the collection include: audio recordings made by Salkazanova during the 1980s and 1990s, which include interviews with Natan Eidel'man, Elena Bonner, Eduard Kuznetsov, and Viktor Nekrasov (some 32 times) and broadcast recordings, mainly programs hosted by Salkazanova on Radio Liberty during the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s including Chelovek i obshchestvo, Za i protiv, Russkii Parizh, and Vokrug sveta (some 68 items). These two series feature both audio cassettes and reels.
Dates
- Creation: 1977-2003
Creator
- Salkazanova, Fatima, 1942-2015 (Person)
Language of Materials
Collection material in Russian and French.
Restrictions
There are no access restrictions on this collection.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright status for collection materials is unknown. Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.) beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Works not in the public domain cannot be commercially exploited without permission of the copyright owners. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user.
Biographical Note
Fatima Aleksandrovna Salkazanova (née Zembatova, 1942-2015) was born in Moscow, Soviet Union. She was a Russian-French journalist and a broadcaster who worked for Radio Liberty/Radio Free Europe from the 1960s through 1995, and then, until her retirement in 2007, for Radio France International. Salkazanova grew up in Moscow and Norilsk. After immigrating to France in 1963, she studied Russian literature at the Sorbonne before joining Radio Liberty. Salkazanova frequently published articles and reviews under the pseudonym Ekaterina Kazanskaia in the emigre journals Kontinent and Russkaia Mysl'.
Full Extent
7 Cubic Feet
Abstract
Audio recordings and papers by the radio journalist Fatima Aleksandrovna Salkazanova, who hosted news programs on Radio Liberty and Radio France International in Paris.
Arrangement Note
The collection is arranged in three series: 1. Typescripts and Printed Matter; 2. Sound Recordings; 3. Broadcast Recordings.
Processing Information
Arranged and described 2013, by Natasha Lyandres Nathan Gerth. Finding aid 2013, by Nathan Gerth. Finding aid imported from legacy EAD and updated in 2025 by Grace Thomsen.
- Title
- Guide to the Fatima Aleksandrovna Salkazanova Papers
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Natasha Lyandres; Nathan Gerth
- Date
- June 2013
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English
- Edition statement
- Finding aid imported from legacy EAD and updated on October 16, 2025 by Grace Thomsen
Repository Details
Part of the University of Notre Dame Rare Books & Special Collections Repository