Obituaries : Alexei I. Adzhubei; Izvestia Editor

MOSCOW — Alexei I. Adzhubei, the son-in-law of former Soviet leader Nikita S. Khrushchev and former editor of the newspaper Izvestia, has died. He was 68.

The report on Russian television Friday gave no details of when he died or the cause of death.

Adzhubei, who was married to Khrushchev’s daughter, Rada, lost his prominent editing and Communist Party posts when the bombastic Soviet leader was ousted from power in 1964.

After serving in the Soviet army from 1943-45, Adzhubei became a journalist and member of the editorial board of the newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda from 1951-57 and was its chief editor from 1957-59.

In 1959, he became editor of Izvestia, one of the Soviet Union’s most influential newspapers, and accompanied Khrushchev on his tour of the United States that year.

The day after Khrushchev’s Oct. 14, 1964, ouster, Adzhubei resigned as editor of Izvestia. One month later, a special one-day session of the Communist Party’s Central Committee expelled Adzhubei.