The paper first analyzes the professional activities of the greatest poet of the second half of the XX century, a native of Voronezh, a former prisoner of Stalin’s camps Anatoly Zhigulin (1930-2000) in the permanent staff of editors literary-artistic and public-political magazines «Podyem», «Druzhba narodov» and «Literaturnaya gazeta». Materials writer’s archive, A.V. Zhigulin’s (documents, diaries, workbooks and letters) received in 2011-2013 for permanent storage in the Voronezh literary Museum of I.S. Nikitin, and open up new, previously unknown pages of the life and work of the poet and the history of domestic journalism. Conclusions about the necessity of further study of the epistolary heritage of the famous writer.

Anatoly Zhigulin, magazines «Podyem», «Druzhba narodov» and «Literaturnaya gazeta», the history of national journalism.