The Great Patriotic War through the eyes of TASS photojournalists. The most famous photojournalists of the second world war

War photographers ... they have a special place among their colleagues. And it's not just that, unlike the rest, they really risk their lives. It's just that a war photographer sees the underside of life and death, sees real people. And he can also be a witness to History. Especially when it comes to the most difficult war that the photographer went through from the first to the last day.

The name of Yevgeny Khaldei is known to few, his photographs to everyone.

At least two: the photograph "Banner over the Reichstag" taken in May 1945, which became a real symbol of Victory, and the famous photograph "The First Day of War", the only one taken in Moscow on June 22, 1941. These two shots give a vivid, but, of course, incomplete idea of ​​the work of Yevgeny Khaldei.

His footage of 1941-1946, capturing the war from the announcement of the German attack on the USSR to Nuremberg trials, traveled all over the world and are shown as illustrations in countless textbooks, documentary books, encyclopedias.

From his photographs, the foremost workers of production and the Stakhanovites, soldiers and generals, careless children and party officials busy with state affairs, unknown miners and heads of world powers, look at us. These photographs have become history - the history of a huge country and the history of one person, a great master who subtly senses the essence and meaning of his work, who has the gift of exceptional creative expressiveness, who respects and understands his heroes.

“Yevgeny Khaldei is one of the most famous Soviet photographers, a correspondent for TASS Photo Chronicle, representing the editorial staff of TASS on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War. All 1418 days he traveled with his Leica camera from Murmansk to Berlin.

Most famous photography fact: The photograph was circulated in millions of copies, but only relatively recently did Evgeny Khaldei tell the true story of this photograph. As it turned out, the photo was still completely staged. Moreover, although the main banner over the Reichstag (there were more than forty of them installed by different units) was actually hoisted on May 1 by Yegorov, Kantaria and Berest, they are not at all in the picture! And the banner in the hands of the soldiers has nothing to do with the 150th Infantry Division - it was made from a tablecloth and brought by Yevgeny Khaldey himself.

On May 2, Yevgeny Khaldei arrived at the Reichstag with his banner and stopped several soldiers, asking them to help. Three of them helped him to hoist the banner as high as possible given that the building was on fire. It was these soldiers who appeared in the photo - Alexey Kovalev (Ukraine), Abdulhakim Ismailov (Dagestan) and Leonid Gorichev (Belarus). The photo itself took on a life of its own - it appeared in the press as a reportage, not a staged one, and its characters were given other names.

After the war, Yevgeny Khaldei continued to work as a photographer and participate in exhibitions. He was an excellent photojournalist, although the country and the world knew him first of all as the author of "that very photograph of the banner over the Reichstag".

In 1995, at the International Festival of Photojournalism, Yevgeny Khaldey was awarded perhaps the most honorable award in the art world - the title "Knight of the Order of Arts and Literature". Two years later, Evgeny Ananievich was gone.

The camera of the German company Leica, produced in 1923, was sold in 2014 at an auction in Vienna for 2.16 million euros, becoming the most expensive camera in the world. The sold camera was one of 25 test samples released by Leica in 1923, two years before the launch of such cameras in mass production. To date, there are only 12 such cameras left in the world, which have become objects of hunting for collectors.

As reported on the Wikipedia page dedicated to Leica, the Leica camera was used by Evgeny Ananievich Khaldei, known, in particular, for the famous photograph "The Banner of Victory over the Reichstag" (which turned out to be a production).

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Many photographs have gone down in history and make up the golden fund Russian photography.

70 years ago in Berlin, Sergeant Mikhail Yegorov, Junior Sergeant Meliton Kantaria and Lieutenant Alexei Berest hoisted the Victory Banner on the roof of the Reichstag building. This was captured in a photograph by the famous Tassov photographer Yevgeny Khaldei.

During the Great Patriotic War, such well-known photojournalists as Grigory Lipskerov, Mark Redkin, Leonid Velikzhanin, Sergey Loskutov, Naum Granovsky, Emmanuil Evzerikhin, Nikolai Sitnikov also worked in the TASS photo chronicle. Their photographs went down in history and constitute the golden fund of Russian photography.

In the TASS gallery - the Great Patriotic War through the eyes of photojournalists.

Photojournalists of TASS

Naum Granovsky

Photos of the Granovsky period of the Patriotic War, which have become unique evidence of history, are kept in Moscow in the Central Museum of the Armed Forces.

Moscow 1941-1945 occupies a special place in Granovsky's photo archive. The work in wartime was very intense - the air attacks of fascist aircraft did not stop for several months. His photographs were regularly published in central newspapers and millions of readers could see with their own eyes Moscow, which was defended as a fortress. In one of the trips to the front line of the front, Granovsky was wounded.

Photos of Granovsky are interesting from an artistic point of view. They are not a technical reproduction of urban architecture, but through people and details of urban life reflect the style of the time: Soviet (Tverskaya) Square in a cloud of flying pigeons, pompous fountains of VDNKh, wide streets and busy avenues.

Mark Redkin

By the beginning of World War II, Mark Redkin was a TASS photojournalist with extensive experience as a military journalist, well versed in the peculiarities of military service.

The photographer went through the war "from" and "to". He visited all the fronts, almost died, spent about two months in the hospital, recovered and went to the front again.

In Berlin, just before the end of the war, Red'kin sent orders to all front-line bureaucrats to report to journalists on May 5 at 13 o'clock Moscow time to the southern side of the Reichstag for photographing as a souvenir. Everyone showed up, although they were perplexed - after all, the Reichstag had not yet been taken, but Redkin's intuition did not disappoint. All gathered at the appointed time. The winners were photographed.

Exactly 30 years later, on May 5, 1975, Redkin summoned the former participants of the commemorative meeting, already in Moscow, to photograph them at the Triumphal Arch on Victory Square. But not everyone lived to see this date.

Emmanuel Evzerikhin

With the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, Evzerikhin became a special military photojournalist for TASS. During the defense of Stalingrad, he heroically all 200 days, risking his life, filmed battles and sent the footage to the editor every day. The films were developed and dried in the field, and then transferred by plane to Moscow so that the photographs could appear in newspapers simultaneously with the reports of the Sovinformburo.

Evzerikhin filmed on many fronts, including the battles for the liberation of Minsk, cities of Poland and Czechoslovakia, participated in the operation to capture Konigsberg. He organized training of soldiers to conduct photographic reconnaissance of enemy firing points, adapting for this a "watering can" to an artillery stereoscopic tube. Many of his military cadres have become textbooks.

Returning from the front, Evzerikhin continued his work in the TASS Photo Chronicle. At the same time, he taught at the Correspondence People's University of Arts, giving lectures around the country on the basics of the art of photography. It was important work because there were no specialized educational institutions for the training of photojournalists.

Evgeny Khaldey

The only military photojournalist in Soviet photojournalism, in whose archives the Great Patriotic War of 1941-45 is presented in a textbook manner, from the very beginning to the last day.

In the literal sense "with a watering can and a notebook" he went through all 1418 days of the war. The first military photograph "Muscovites listening to Molotov's message" was taken at 12 noon on June 22 in Moscow on October 25th Street, the last one during the Victory Day parade on Red Square on June 24, 1945. In the early days of the war, Khaldei was sent to the Northern Fleet , where, together with the sailors, he defended the Rybachy Peninsula, stormed Kerch and Sevastopol with paratroopers, participated in the liberation of Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Austria, raised the Victory flag in Berlin and filmed the Victory Parade on Red Square.

A military photojournalist is a special feeling of life, a special look at the tragedy of people and human dignity, it is a special heightened memory of a person risking his life. When asked what struck him most in the war, Khaldei replied: "The number of lives lost and the Nazi leaders sitting in the cells of the prison basement are the people who ruled the world."

After the war, Yevgeny Khaldei was looking for those whom he had photographed during the war years and many of his photographs came to life, they were no longer nameless.

Nikolay Sitnikov

At the beginning of World War II, Sitnikov volunteered for a detachment formed for military operations in the rear of the Nazi invaders near Moscow. The partisan and political instructor Sitnikov, armed with a camera, became a chronicler of the combat operations of the Special Purpose detachment against the German invaders. Once a FED camera hanging on his chest saved his life without letting an enemy bullet pass. But during another battle, Sitnikov was seriously wounded, and the doctors had to amputate his leg.

Immediately after demobilization, he entered the TASS Photo Chronicle. The war was not over yet, and Nikolai Mikhailovich continued to be a selfless fighter. He worked not only in Moscow, but with his camera traveled to Siberia, to the Urals, to tell with his photographs about the labor heroism of Soviet people, united by one desire: to do everything for the front, for victory. Documentary footage, without a hint of embellishment, shows darkened production workshops of wartime, strict, concentrated people, more often women who make weapons, assemble tanks, planes. With patriotism and skill characteristic of Sitnikov, he was able to find and convey the visual expression of patriotic mood in the hearts of people. This is the photo "Let's give more tanks to the front". The two shop posters are not official propaganda material, but a daily and hourly reminder of the unconditional victory over the enemy, which they, the workers of this shop, bring closer with their selfless labor.

Nikolai Sitnikov was sent to the liberated Stalingrad as a TASS correspondent. Here, filming the heroes who took part in the Battle of Stalingrad, he tried to show more broadly and in greater detail the return of a peaceful life to the city: unloading a train with building materials to restore a tractor plant, a group of children walking with a teacher, the concerns of civilians, soldiers during a conversation ... Nikolai Sitnikov was I am convinced that, printed in newspapers, these simple and visible proofs of the return of the country to a peaceful life are necessary for the readers.

Max Alpert

At the end of the war, Max Alpert continued to work actively.

The tenacity of the eye and the ability to penetrate into the essence of the phenomena that characterize his pictures were also manifested in his relations with people. They said about him: a photographer from God. Tall, stately, respectful already appearance, with kind, attentive eyes, he always knew how to maintain a conversation, give the necessary advice. Despite his venerable age, he was not inferior to his young colleagues either in energy or in the ability to see material and embody it in visible images.

V last years Max Alpert crowned his life with a photo essay "Thoughts and Heart" about the renowned surgeon-cardiologist Academician Nikolai Amosov. The photo essay has won several international awards.

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Their names have firmly entered the history of not only Russian photography, but also the history of Soviet journalism. Courage, unshakable faith in victory and dedication - this is what distinguished each of them when they volunteered to go to the front and, under bullets, created a photo chronicle of the country. We present an overview of the most famous Soviet photojournalists during the Great Patriotic War.

Max Alpert (1899-1980)

Max Vladimirovich Alpert was born in Simferopol. Together with his brother, Mikhail Alperin, he studied photography in Odessa. After Civil War worked as a photojournalist in the "Rabochaya Gazeta" in Moscow. In the 1920s, he was a member of the Association of Photographers at the Moscow Press House.

In the 1930s, he worked for the illustrated magazine USSR in Construction, where he prepared about 50 photo essays. The most important work of this period was done on the construction of a plant in Magnitogorsk (Magnitka), on the laying of Turksib, on the construction of the Big Fergana Canal.

During the Great Patriotic War, as a correspondent for the TASS Photo Chronicle and the Soviet Information Bureau, Alpert worked both in the rear and at the front, in a combat situation. Alpert is the author of the world-famous work "Combat", which has become one of the symbols of war. At the end of the war he visited Prague and Berlin, filmed the Victory Parade on June 24, 1945 in Moscow. In the post-war years he collaborated in various publications. He was a leading photojournalist for the Novosti press agency.

Many of his works are kept in the collection of negatives of the State Central Museum of Contemporary History of Russia. He is considered one of the founders of Soviet serial reportage photography. Honored Worker of Culture of the RSFSR (1966).

Anatoly Arkhipov (1913-1950)

Anatoly Arkhipovich Arkhipov was born in Kharkov, since 1939 he worked as a photojournalist for the editorial office of Soviet Ukraine, then transferred to Moscow to the Illustrated Newspaper. Anatoly Arkhipov took the first pictures of the Great Patriotic War in May 1942 on the Southwestern Front. For the first time his photographs were published in 1942 in the propaganda magazine "Front illustration".

Then there was Stalingrad, in the battles for which Arkhipov was wounded in November 1942, the Leningrad Front, the liberation of Eastern Ukraine, the Battle of Kursk, the liberation of Kiev, Belarus, Poland, the offensive in Germany. He filmed both ordinary soldiers and military leaders.

Dmitry Baltermants (1912-1990)

After graduating in 1939 from the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of the Moscow state university Dmitry Baltermants was accepted as a mathematics teacher at the Higher Military Academy with the rank of captain. In the same year, he completed his first professional photo essay. On the instructions of the Izvestia newspaper, he captured the entry of the Red Army units into the territory of Western Ukraine. As a result, he joined Izvestia's staff and became a professional photojournalist. According to the memoirs of the daughter of the photographer Tatyana Baltermants, before making the fateful decision, Dmitry Baltermants almost did not hesitate and easily abandoned the prospects of a scientific academic career: “It took a little time to think - the soul was already poisoned by photography, it remains to take a camera in hand”.

Dmitry Nikolaevich Baltermants was a photojournalist for the Izvestia newspaper, filmed for her reports on the construction of anti-tank fortifications near Moscow, the defense of the Crimea, the Battle of Stalingrad. In 1942, due to an editor's mistake (they published a photo of destroyed not German, but British tanks that were in service with the Red Army), responsibility for which was assigned to the author of the photo, Baltermants was demoted to the rank and file and sent to the penal battalion. As a result of the injury, his leg was amputated. After staying in hospitals until 1944, Dmitry returned to the front as a photojournalist for the army newspaper To Defeat the Enemy. For battles in the city of Breslau on May 16, 1945, Lieutenant Colonel I. Volkov again presented Senior Lieutenant Baltermants to the award - the Order of the Patriotic War, II degree.

Returning from the front, Dmitry Baltermants did not immediately find a job. Only the poet Alexei Surkov, editor-in-chief of the Ogonyok magazine, was not afraid to hire Baltermants. In this magazine, since 1965, heading its photo department, Dmitry Baltermants worked until his death.

During the years of Khrushchev's "thaw" Dmitry Baltermants experienced the peak of his popularity. At this time, Soviet amateur photographers were able to see many of the "archival", unprinted at the time, front-line works of the master, capturing not only feat, but death, grief and hardships of war. The photographer became famous abroad - personal exhibitions of Dmitry Baltermants in London (1964) and New York (1965) made him a world famous.

Natalia Bode (1914-1996)

She was born on December 17 (December 30) 1914 in Kiev in the family of a technical school teacher. In 1934 she worked as a photojournalist in the newspaper ShchKPU "Kommunist". In 1938 she transferred to the TASS Photo Chronicle in Ukraine. In 1941 she volunteered to work in the front newspaper of the South-Western Front "Red Army" and went with it until the end of the war. Filmed on the South-Western, Central, 1st Belorussian fronts. She was constantly published in the central newspapers Pravda, Krasnaya Zvezda, Ogonyok magazine and foreign press (through the Sovinformburo). She ended the war with the rank of senior lieutenant.

After the war, in 1945, Detizdat published a book of photographs, "The Roads of War", which received an award. She took part in many all-Union and international photo exhibitions. From 1945 she lived in Moscow. She worked as a Moscow correspondent for the Ukrainian newspaper "Radianska Kultura".

Robert Diament (1907-1987)

During the Great Patriotic War, Robert (Joseph-Raphael) Lvovich Diament served in the Northern Fleet as a photojournalist, head of the photo bureau of the Fleet's Political Directorate. After demobilization, he worked under contracts at the All-Union Agricultural Exhibition, carried out assignments of the Anti-Fascist Committee of Soviet Women, the editorial board of the Club and Amateur Arts magazine, the Proftekhobrazovanie and Industrial training", His photographs were published in magazines:" Ogonyok "," Soviet Union "," Soviet photo "," Health "," Worker "," Behind the wheel ", etc., on the pages of photo albums, were exhibited in military museums in Moscow, Kiev, Leningrad, Murmansk, Polyarny, Severomorsk, etc.

For the sake of doing the work of a photojournalist, he sacrificed his health - when shooting a salvo of the main caliber of the cruiser on which he was, Diament did not close his ear, as his finger was on the trigger of the camera. As a result, he was wounded and almost deaf in his left ear.

His photographs are the most detailed chronicle of the life of the North Sea warriors: sailors, marines, pilots. He went out with submariners to torpedo enemy ships, ensure the safety of allied convoys on destroyers, took part in the landing and in the battles of the Petsamo-Kirkenes operation, flew out with torpedo pilots. Member of the Union of Journalists of the USSR since 1967.

Emmanuel Evzerikhin ( 1911–1984)

World famous classic of Soviet photography.

Was born in 1911 in Rostov-on-Don. In the late 1930s, he worked as a freelance correspondent for the TASS Press Cliché. Since 1933 he has been working in the TASS Photo Chronicle. In 1934 he moved to Moscow, where he got the opportunity to film the main events of the era: the Congress of the Comintern and the Congress of Soviets, at which the Constitution was adopted; construction, arctic expeditions and sports parades. He photographed Maxim Gorky, Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin; famous pilots - V. Chkalov, M. Gromov, outstanding figures of culture and art.

During the war years he filmed on many fronts. The most famous are the photographs taken in Stalingrad. He took part in the liberation of cities: Minsk, Warsaw, Konigsberg, finished the war in Prague, was awarded two Orders of the Red Star, the Order of the Patriotic War II degree and medals of the USSR. Filmed the liberation of Donbass, Minsk, Warsaw, Konigsberg, Prague. The Stalingrad cycle of his photographs was especially famous.

After the war, while working at TASS, E. Evzerikhin taught the basics of the art of photography at the Correspondence People's University of Arts, gave lectures around the country.

Emmanuel Evzerikhin died in 1984.

Georgy Zelma (1906-1984)

Georgy Anatolyevich Zelma (real name Zelmanovich) was born in 1906 in Tashkent. In 1921 he moved to Moscow, where he began photographing with an old 9 × 12 Kodak camera. Got his first photography experience in the Proletkino studio and during theatrical rehearsals for the Teatr magazine. He continued to work at the Russfoto agency, where he came as a photographer's apprentice and soon began to work independently.

Photojournalist for Izvestia, Ogonyok, Krasnaya Zvezda and other publications in the 1920s and 1930s, a military photojournalist for Izvestia newspaper. He worked on the front lines in Moldova, Odessa and Ukraine.

His most famous photographs were taken during the Battle of Stalingrad, where the photographer chronicled the battles for the city. After the war, Georgy Zelma worked for the Ogonyok magazine, and since 1962 - for the Novosti agency.

Boris Ignatovich (1899-1979)

Boris Vsevolodovich Ignatovich was born in Lutsk. Journalist since 1918. In 1921 he moved to Moscow, where he headed the Gornyak newspaper. In 1922-1925 in Petrograd he became interested in photography. After returning to Moscow, he became one of the leaders of the Association of Photojournalists at the House of Press, since 1927 he worked as a bild editor and photojournalist for the newspaper "Bednota", collaborated in the magazines "Narpit", "Prozhektor", "Ogonyok", "Soviet Photo" and "USSR in Construction".

Together with Alexander Rodchenko - one of the organizers and head of the "October" Group.

In the 1930s. took a great interest in film reporting, made several documentaries (film essay "Today" and a film about the Kukryniksy, etc.). At the same time, he headed the department of illustrations for the newspaper Vechernyaya Moskva.

During the Great Patriotic War, he worked as a photojournalist in the newspaper of the 30th Army "Battle Banner". He worked behind enemy lines, filming the partisan movement.

After the war he worked in many magazines and publishing houses, headed the Novator club. He created portraits of figures of culture and art (Korney Chukovsky, Mikhail Zoshchenko, Boris Pasternak, etc.). Awarded with medals of the USSR. The author of the famous photo of Stalin with Nakhangova.

The liberation of the surviving prisoners of the Auschwitz (Auschwitz) concentration camp by Soviet soldiers. Above the gates of the camp, the famous slogan "Arbeit macht frei" (Arbeit macht frei), which means "Labor liberates", is visible. The concentration camp was liberated on January 27, 1945 by units of the 100th rifle division of General Fyodor Krasavin. 1st Ukrainian Front. Photo: Boris Ignatovich

Partisan Kuzma Zakharov. 1943 year. Photo: Boris Ignatovich

Boris Kudoyarov (1898-1973)

Boris Pavlovich Kudoyarov was born in 1898 in Tashkent. He graduated from the pre-revolutionary gymnasium. In 1917-1920 he served in the Red Army. Being an amateur photographer, he began to actively shoot sports competitions. In 1925 he began working as a photojournalist for the journal "Physical Culture and Sport", from 1926 he worked at the Russfoto agency, later - Unionfoto, from 1931 - a photojournalist of the Soyuzfoto agency. He specialized in sports subjects, and also created "a photo chronicle of the industrialization and collectivization of the country." In 1932, during the May Day celebrations, from a P-5 plane, he photographed Red Square with columns of demonstrators, the decoration of Metrostroy, the Labor Palace, Sverdlovsk Square with giant portraits in the middle. In the same year, on a business trip to the enterprises of the Nizhny Novgorod Territory, he took photographs of the Nizhny Novgorod Automobile Plant, Sormov, Vyksinsky Plant, port and other objects.

During the Great Patriotic War, he was a photojournalist for "Komsomolskaya Pravda" in besieged Leningrad, made about 3000 shots during this time, many of which were included in the golden fund of Soviet journalism and photography. The Leningrad cycle of B. Kudoyarov entered the classics of military photography. In the post-war years he worked as a photojournalist for Komsomolskaya Pravda. He died on a creative business trip to Central Asia in 1973 in a car accident.

Mark Markov-Greenberg (1907-2006)

Mark Borisovich Markov-Grinberg in 1925 became a photojournalist for the Rostov newspaper "Soviet Yug" and a freelance correspondent for the magazine "Ogonyok". And in 1926 he moved to Moscow. Worked for the Smena magazine. From 1930 he worked at TASS, and in September 1941 he was sent to the front as a private. Only in July 1943 he was sent by the political department of the army as a correspondent for the army newspaper "Word of the Boytsa".

After the war, he served with the rank of captain as a photojournalist in the newspaper Krasnoarmeyskaya Illustrated Newspaper. After the war, he served with the rank of captain as a photojournalist for the Krasnoarmeiskaya Illustrated Newspaper.

Honorary Member of the Union of Photo Artists of Russia. M. Markov-Grinberg did not live only a year to his century.

Mark Redkin ( 1908-1987)

Mark Stepanovich Redkin was born in the city of Astrakhan in 1908 in the family of a sailor. In his youth he worked as a welder at a shipyard. In 1932 he graduated from the Leningrad Film and Photo Technical School. In 1933 he was called up to military service... In 1934 he began to take photographs for newspapers. From 1934 to 1941 he worked for the Krasnaya Zvezda newspaper. During the war there was a photojournalist for TASS, as well as for the newspaper "Front illustration". He was familiar with A.S. Shaikhet and Y. N. Khalip.

In 1934-1941 he was a photojournalist for the newspaper of the Leningrad Military District and the Baltic Fleet "Krasnaya Zvezda", photo chronicle of TASS. Filmed on many fronts. After the victory over Germany, he filmed the war with Japan. In the post-war period he was a correspondent for the TASS photo chronicle, the Soviet Union magazine, and the Planeta publishing house.

Yakov Ryumkin (1913-1986)

Was born in 1913 in Kharkov. Graduated from the working faculty of Kharkov University; collaborated with the Kharkov newspaper "Evening Radio". Since 1936 - a photojournalist of the republican newspaper "Kommunist", an organ of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine.

Since the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, he was a photojournalist for the Pravda newspaper on the South-Western Front. Later he took pictures on different fronts, the most famous of which are his photographs taken in the battle for Stalingrad. Participated as a photojournalist in the liberation of Ukraine, Moldova, Romania, Hungary. Filmed fighting in Berlin.

In the post-war years he worked in the newspapers Pravda, Sovetskaya Rossiya, in the Ogonyok magazine, and in the Kolos publishing house. Published several copyright photo albums. Decorated with orders and medals.

He died in Moscow in 1986.

Mikhail Savin (1915-2006)

Mikhail Ivanovich Savin was born in 1915. From 1939 he worked in the TASS Photo Chronicle. In the active army since June 1941. Military photojournalist, senior lieutenant. As a front-line photojournalist, he went through the entire war from the first to the last day. During the war he was awarded medals "For Courage", "For Victory over Germany." From 1946 to 1992 he was one of the leading photojournalists of the Ogonyok magazine.

Author of photo albums, participant of many photo exhibitions, especially dedicated to the Great Patriotic War. He was fond of painting. Lives in Moscow. from March 1941 he worked in the newspaper of the Western Military District "Krasnoarmeyskaya Pravda".

Filmed the retreat in Belarus, the battles near Smolensk, the battle for Moscow, on the Kursk Bulge, the liberation of Lithuania, the offensive in East Prussia. Filmed the surrender of German troops in East Prussia and the Baltic. Since 1945, Mikhail Savin worked as a photojournalist for the Ogonyok magazine.

Sergei Strunnikov (1907-1944)

Sergei Nikolaevich Strunnikov was born in 1907 in Moscow in the family of an artist. In 1926 he graduated high school and began working as a posters for a Moscow cinema. A year later he entered the State Film Technical School (hereinafter - the All-Union state institute cinematography). As a student, in 1929 he independently made a documentary about the work of the geological exploration party "Exploration of Fuel". In the spring of 1930 he finished the course of the technical school and began to work at the Mezhrabpomfilm studio in the group of the famous director V. Pudovkin. Then he began to publish pictures in the central press.

Voluntarily joined the ranks of the Red Army and worked for a year in an army newspaper. Since 1932 - a photojournalist for the newspaper Pravda.

In 1933 he took part in the polar expedition on the icebreaker "Krasin" as a photojournalist for "Glavsevmorput". Conducted reports from five-year construction projects in Central Asia and Transcaucasia.

In 1940, the 10th anniversary of his photographic work was marked by a personal exhibition in the Central House of Journalists. Since 1941 he has been a military photojournalist for Pravda. His photograph "Zoya", taken near Moscow in January 1942, gained worldwide fame. Filmed near Odessa, Tula, in besieged Leningrad, in the Kharkov direction, in Stalingrad. He died in June 1944 during an enemy air raid on an airfield near Poltava.

Vsevolod Tarasevich (1919-1998)

Vsevolod Sergeevich Tarasevich began to publish pictures in the newspapers Smena and Leningradskaya Pravda, while still studying at the Leningrad Electrotechnical Institute. Since 1940 he has been a photojournalist for the LenTASS newsreel. Since the beginning of the war, he has been a photojournalist for the political administration of the Northwestern and then Leningrad fronts.

The most significant work of the war period is the series of photographs "Leningrad in the Siege" (1941–1943).

After the end of the war, he worked for the newspaper Vecherniy Leningrad for three years. After moving to Moscow - a photojournalist at VDNKh, magazines "Soviet Union", "Soviet Woman", "Ogonyok". Since 1961 - a photojournalist of the Novosti press agency. One of the first Soviet photographers who began to shoot with color (1954–1955), works from this period were included in the Primrose exhibition (Photobiennale 2008).

In the 70s, Dean of the Faculty of Photojournalism of the Institute of Journalistic Excellence under the Moscow organization of the Union of Journalists.

Victor Temin (1908-1987)

Viktor Antonovich Temin was born on October 21 (November 3), 1903 in Tsarevokokshaisk (now Yoshkar-Ola, Republic of Mari-El) in the family of a priest. I took my first photograph in Menzelinsk when I was still a schoolboy.

In 1922 he began working as a correspondent for the newspaper Izvestia TatCIK. In 1929, on the instructions of the editorial board of Krasnaya Tataria, Viktor Antonovich photographed Maxim Gorky, who had arrived in Kazan. At the meeting, the writer presented the correspondent with a portable Leica camera.

In the 1930s, V.A.Tyomin filmed a number of significant events: the first expedition to the North Pole, the epic of rescuing the Chelyuskinites, the flights of V.P. Chkalov, A.V.Belyakov and G.F. plane "Rodina", expeditions to the Arctic on the icebreakers "Taimyr", "Murmansk", "Ermak", "Sadko". He took part in battles on Lake Khasan, Khalkhin-Gol, in the Soviet-Finnish war (1939-1940).

During the Great Patriotic War, V.A.Tyomin, as a front-line correspondent, was on different fronts. At noon on May 1, 1945, he photographed the Victory Banner from a Po-2 aircraft. This photograph was promptly delivered by him to the editorial office of Pravda. The photo "Banner of Victory over the Reichstag" was published by newspapers and magazines in dozens of countries around the world.

He was awarded three Orders of the Red Star, Orders of the Patriotic War of I and II degrees, and medals. Honored Worker of Culture of the RSFSR.

Mikhail Trakhman (1918 - 1976)

Mikhail Anatolyevich Trakhman was born in Moscow and became interested in photography during his school years. The first pictures were published in Moscow newspapers at the end of the 30s.

In 1938 he became a photojournalist for the Uchitelskaya Gazeta. In 1939 he was drafted into the Red Army, took part in the Soviet-Finnish war.

During the Great Patriotic War, Mikhail Anatolyevich was a photojournalist for the Sovinformburo, worked for the Krasnaya Zvezda newspaper. The best known are his war photographs from the partisan series. After the war he worked for the Ogonyok magazine and as a photojournalist at VDNKh. Awarded with the Order of the Red Star.

David Trachtenberg (1906-1980)

David Mikhailovich Trakhtenberg began working in Leningrad; by education he was an artist and in his work he often used photography, then he began to shoot himself. In the late 1930s, he became a photojournalist for Leningradskaya Pravda. During the war, he kept a detailed photo chronicle of the siege of his native city. He is the author of the unique photo series "Break of the Leningrad Blockade".

After the war, books by David Trachtenberg were published about that great tragedy, an eyewitness, witness and participant of which he became, becoming its chronicler. In the post-war period, he continued to work for the newspaper Leningradskaya Pravda, on the instructions of a number of publishing houses in Moscow and Leningrad, he took pictures for books and albums.

Georgy Ugrinovich (1910-1989)

Alexander Ustinov (1909-1995)

Was born in 1909 in Moscow. A graduate of the camera department of the Institute of Cinematography, collaborated with the newspapers Gudok, Mashinostroenie, Krasnaya Zvezda, Illustrated Newspaper, Ogonyok magazine. In 1938, on the instructions of Ogonyok, he filmed his famous photo report about the preparations for the flight of the crew of the Rodina plane, which made a non-stop flight from Moscow to the Far East.

Alexander Vasilyevich from the mid-thirties worked as a photojournalist in the newspapers "Red Warrior" and Krasnaya Zvezda ". During the war years he was a front-line photojournalist for the newspaper Pravda. Photographed in the famous parade on November 7, 1941 in Moscow, battles on the Volkhov, West, South-West, Leningrad, Stalingrad, Bryansk, 1st, 2nd, 4th Ukrainian fronts.

Filmed the actions of partisan formations behind enemy lines, the meeting of Soviet and American troops on the Elbe on April 25, 1945. After the war he continued to work as a correspondent for the Pravda newspaper.

Vasily Fedoseev (1913-1973)

Evgeny Khaldey (1917-1997)

Evgeny Ananievich Khaldei was born in Yuzovka (now Donetsk). During the Jewish pogrom on March 13, 1918, his mother and grandfather were killed, and the one-year-old child himself received a bullet wound in the chest.

From the age of 13 he began to work at the plant. I took the first picture at the age of 13 with a homemade camera. At the age of 16 he started working as a photojournalist. Since 1939 he has been a correspondent for TASS Photo Chronicle. Filmed Dneprostroy, reports about Alexei Stakhanov. Represented the editorial staff of TASS on the naval front during the Great Patriotic War. He spent all 1418 days of the war with a Leica camera from Murmansk to Berlin.

Filmed the Paris meeting of foreign ministers, the defeat of the Japanese in the Far East, the conference of the heads of the allied powers in Potsdam, the hoisting of the flag over the Reichstag, the signing of the act of Germany's surrender. from the age of 18 he began to work as a photojournalist, and from 1939 he represented TASS Photo Chronicle. Filmed Dneprostroy, reports about Alexei Stakhanov. The Great Patriotic War took place from the first to the last day, taking a huge number of photographs, many of which became famous (including one of the symbols of Victory - the photo "Victory Banner over the Reichstag").

Participated in the liberation of Sevastopol, the storming of Novorossiysk, Kerch, the liberation of Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Austria, Hungary. He shot cycles of photographs about the life of the North Sea people and sailors of the Black Sea Fleet, the Paris meeting of foreign ministers, the defeat of the Japanese in the Far East, the conference of the heads of the allied powers in Potsdam, the hoisting of the flag over the Reistag, the signing of the act of surrender of Germany, the Nuremberg process.

In 2014, his Leica was sold at the Bonhams auction for $ 200,000.

Nikolay Khandogin (1909-1989)

Ivan Shagin (1904-1982)

Ivan Shagin was born in the Yaroslavl region in 1904. When the future photographer was 12 years old, his father died, and a large peasant family was left with very meager means of subsistence. The mother arranged for her son as a "boy" in the shop of a Moscow merchant. Here, running "on the parcels", Ivan Shagin learned to read and write and acquired everyday experience. He returned to the village again only in 1919, when after the revolution the shop, like many others, was closed.

The 17-year-old boy was forced to go to work and got a job as a sailor in the Volga river shipping company. After a short time, the future photographer changed jobs again. This time he was accepted as an auxiliary worker in the "NEP" store - that is, practically in his specialty. Here the young man stayed and for two years "grew" to the assistant director of the store, and then the instructor of the demonstration state store-school.

In the 1920s, he joined the circle at the newspaper "Our Life", where he mastered the basics of photo reporting. Soon, his first photographs were already published in publications under the auspices of the Selkhozgiz concern, and Shagin left his job as a salesman for a photography career. In 1930, Ivan Shagin began cooperation with the newspapers Nasha Zhizn and Kooperativnaya Zhizn of the Selkhozgiz publishing house.

Photojournalist of the newspaper "Komsomolskaya Pravda", during the Great Patriotic War, Shagin worked as a military photojournalist, filming from the first to the last day - from the announcement of the German attack on the Soviet Union and work in the rear to the signing of the surrender in Berlin in May 1945.

Arkady Shaikhet (1898-1959)

Arkady Samoilovich Shaikhet was born on August 28 (September 9), 1898 in Nikolaev (now Ukraine) into a Jewish family. In 1922-1924 he worked as a retoucher in private photography in Moscow. Since 1924 he collaborated in magazines (Ogonyok, USSR in Construction, Our Achievements), creating in his reports a photo chronicle of the first five-year plans.

During the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 he shot a lot at the front as a correspondent for the newspaper "Front illustration". Photographed military operations on different fronts, including near Moscow, near Stalingrad, on the Kursk Bulge, during the capture of Berlin.

In the post-war years he worked again in the magazine "Ogonyok"

May 9, 2015 Alexander

70 years ago in Berlin, Sergeant Mikhail Yegorov, Junior Sergeant Meliton Kantaria and Lieutenant Alexei Berest hoisted the Victory Banner on the roof of the Reichstag building. This was captured in a photo of the famous Tassov photographer Yevgeny Khaldei.

During the Great Patriotic War, such well-known photojournalists as Grigory Lipskerov, Mark Redkin, Leonid Velikzhanin, Sergey Loskutov, Naum Granovsky, Emmanuil Evzerikhin, Nikolai Sitnikov also worked in the TASS photo chronicle. Their photographs went down in history and constitute the golden fund of Russian photography.

In the TASS gallery - the Great Patriotic War through the eyes of photojournalists.

Photojournalists of TASS

Naum Granovsky

Honored Worker of Culture of the Russian Federation, member of the Union of Architects of the USSR and the Union of Journalists of the USSR.

Photos of the Granovsky period of the Patriotic War, which have become unique evidence of history, are kept in Moscow in the Central Museum of the Armed Forces.

Moscow 1941-1945 occupies a special place in Granovsky's photo archive. The work in wartime was very intense - the air attacks of fascist aircraft did not stop for several months. His photographs were regularly published in central newspapers and millions of readers could see with their own eyes Moscow, which was defended as a fortress. In one of the trips to the front line of the front, Granovsky was wounded.

Photos of Granovsky are interesting from an artistic point of view. They are not a technical reproduction of urban architecture, but through people and details of urban life reflect the style of the time: Soviet (Tverskaya) Square in a cloud of flying pigeons, pompous fountains of VDNKh, wide streets and busy avenues.

Mark Redkin

He was awarded the Order of the Red Star, the Order of the Patriotic War of the 2nd degree, medals. Member of the Union of Journalists of the USSR, Honored Worker of Culture of the RSFSR.

By the beginning of World War II, Mark Redkin was a TASS photojournalist with extensive experience as a military journalist, well versed in the peculiarities of military service.

The photographer went through the war "from" and "to". He visited all the fronts, almost died, spent about two months in the hospital, recovered and went to the front again.

In Berlin, just before the end of the war, Red'kin sent orders to all front-line bureaucrats to report to journalists on May 5 at 13 o'clock Moscow time to the southern side of the Reichstag for photographing as a souvenir. Everyone showed up, although they were perplexed - after all, the Reichstag had not yet been taken, but Redkin's intuition did not disappoint. All gathered at the appointed time. The winners were photographed.

Exactly 30 years later, on May 5, 1975, Redkin summoned the former participants of the commemorative meeting, already in Moscow, to photograph them at the Triumphal Arch on Victory Square. But not everyone lived to see this date.

Emmanuel Evzerikhin

He was awarded two Orders of the Red Star, the Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd degree, and medals of the USSR.

With the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, Evzerikhin became a special military photojournalist for TASS. During the defense of Stalingrad, he heroically all 200 days, risking his life, filmed battles and sent the footage to the editor every day. The films were developed and dried in the field, and then transferred by plane to Moscow so that the photographs could appear in newspapers simultaneously with the reports of the Sovinformburo.

Evzerikhin filmed on many fronts, including the battles for the liberation of Minsk, cities of Poland and Czechoslovakia, participated in the operation to capture Konigsberg. He organized training of soldiers to conduct photographic reconnaissance of enemy firing points, adapting for this a "watering can" to an artillery stereoscopic tube. Many of his military cadres have become textbooks.

Returning from the front, Evzerikhin continued his work in the TASS Photo Chronicle. At the same time, he taught at the Correspondence People's University of Arts, giving lectures around the country on the basics of the art of photography. It was an important job, because there were no specialized educational institutions for the training of photojournalists.

Evgeny Khaldey

Honored Worker of Culture of the RSFSR, member of the Union of Journalists, awarded the Order of the Red Star, the Order of the Patriotic War II degree, medals.

The only military photojournalist in Soviet photojournalism, in whose archives the Great Patriotic War of 1941-45 is presented in a textbook manner, from the very beginning to the last day.

In the literal sense "with a watering can and a notebook" he went through all 1418 days of the war. The first military photograph "Muscovites listening to Molotov's message" was taken at 12 noon on June 22 in Moscow on October 25th Street, the last one during the Victory Day parade on Red Square on June 24, 1945. In the early days of the war, Khaldei was sent to the Northern Fleet , where, together with the sailors, he defended the Rybachy Peninsula, stormed Kerch and Sevastopol with paratroopers, participated in the liberation of Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Austria, raised the Victory flag in Berlin and filmed the Victory Parade on Red Square.

A military photojournalist is a special feeling of life, a special look at the tragedy of people and human dignity, it is a special heightened memory of a person risking his life. When asked what struck him most in the war, Khaldei replied: "The number of lives lost and the Nazi leaders sitting in the cells of the prison basement are the people who ruled the world."

After the war, Yevgeny Khaldei was looking for those whom he had photographed during the war years and many of his photographs came to life, they were no longer nameless.

Nikolay Sitnikov

He was awarded the Order of the Red Star and medals.

At the beginning of World War II, Sitnikov volunteered for a detachment formed for military operations in the rear of the Nazi invaders near Moscow. The partisan and political instructor Sitnikov, armed with a camera, became a chronicler of the combat operations of the Special Purpose detachment against the German invaders. Once a FED camera hanging on his chest saved his life without letting an enemy bullet pass. But during another battle, Sitnikov was seriously wounded, and the doctors had to amputate his leg.

Immediately after demobilization, he entered the TASS Photo Chronicle. The war was not over yet, and Nikolai Mikhailovich continued to be a selfless fighter. He worked not only in Moscow, but with his camera traveled to Siberia, to the Urals, to tell with his photographs about the labor heroism of Soviet people, united by one desire: to do everything for the front, for victory. Documentary footage, without a hint of embellishment, shows darkened production workshops of wartime, strict, concentrated people, more often women who make weapons, assemble tanks, planes. With patriotism and skill characteristic of Sitnikov, he was able to find and convey the visual expression of patriotic mood in the hearts of people. This is the photo "Let's give more tanks to the front". The two shop posters are not official propaganda material, but a daily and hourly reminder of the unconditional victory over the enemy, which they, the workers of this shop, bring closer with their selfless labor.

Nikolai Sitnikov was sent to the liberated Stalingrad as a TASS correspondent. Here, filming the heroes who took part in the Battle of Stalingrad, he tried to show more broadly and in greater detail the return of a peaceful life to the city: unloading a train with building materials to restore a tractor plant, a group of children walking with a teacher, the concerns of civilians, soldiers during a conversation ... Nikolai Sitnikov was I am convinced that, printed in newspapers, these simple and visible proofs of the return of the country to a peaceful life are necessary for the readers.

Max Alpert

Max Alpert went through the entire Great Patriotic War from start to finish, working both in the rear and at the front. In filming the military routine, Alpert reveals the merciless truth of the war. Here is what Konstantin Simonov wrote about the photographer: “As a war correspondent, an employee of Krasnaya Zvezda, I had to be in a lot of different circumstances on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War next to the military photojournalist of TASS Max Alpert. His military photographs are countless and well known. the joy to once again testify that many of these photographs were taken in a difficult and dangerous environment, and in order to carry out his duty there, at the front, without retreating, this man invariably showed his usual calm and silent courage. "

At the end of the war, Max Alpert continued to work actively.

The tenacity of the eye and the ability to penetrate into the essence of the phenomena that characterize his pictures were also manifested in his relations with people. They said about him: a photographer from God. Tall, stately, arousing respect for himself already in appearance, with kind, attentive eyes, he always knew how to maintain a conversation, give the necessary advice. Despite his venerable age, he was not inferior to his young colleagues either in energy or in the ability to see material and embody it in visible images.

In the last years of his life, Max Alpert crowned his career with a photo essay "Thoughts and Heart" about the renowned surgeon-cardiologist, academician Nikolai Amosov. The photo essay has won several international awards.

World Press Photo is the most prestigious and respected international photojournalism competition, which largely determines the direction of the development of the entire profession. Each year, an independent jury of reputable professional photojournalists and photo editors from leading media outlets evaluates the work of applicants in nine different nominations. For two weeks of work, the jury members view over 100 thousand photographs sent by at least five thousand authors from almost all (on average over 120) countries of the world.

During the existence of the competition, which has been held since 1955, Soviet and Russian photojournalists have shown high level professionalism, which is shown not only by the number of laureates of the competition, but also by the fact that since 2011 Russian is one of the seven official languages ​​in which the World Press Photo catalog is distributed. This review briefly describes the national laureates of this prestigious competition.

Yuri Abramochkin? he is one of the most prominent Soviet reporters, whose works were included in the golden fund of not only Soviet, but also world photojournalism. He came to the "Sovinformburo" back in 1957, and since 1961 he has become a permanent employee of this reputable organization among Soviet journalists. It is thanks to her that Yuri Abramochkin will travel half of the world with a camera, filming the most important events of the second half of the twentieth century. “I am a fidget man,” Abramochkin says about himself. "Today I am interested in one thing, tomorrow - another." Unsurprisingly, he has received numerous awards for his photography. But one of the most important awards was undoubtedly the World Press Photo Golden Eye for the landing of Matthias Rust on Red Square.

Vitaly Arutyunov graduated from the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University in 1975. MV Lomonosov Moscow State University (a group of photojournalists), and a year before that he became an employee of the Novosti Press Agency. There he worked for almost a quarter of a century, including 4 years as a staff photojournalist in India. And they noticed Vitaly right away - already in 1978 he received the first prize at the competition for young journalists. In the future, there will be many more awards, there will be exhibitions, including personal ones. But the two most important awards, in addition to the recognition of the photo community, are the gold medal of the International Organization of Journalists and the highest award of World Press Photo "Golden Eye".

Victor Akhlomov

Viktor Akhlomov is one of the most famous and respected photojournalists in the history of photography in Russia. Not only has he been repeatedly awarded various Russian prizes, but also four times became a laureate of the World Press Photo competition. Victor does not just make portraits of his contemporaries - in a single photograph he knows how to show a whole reportage. Viktor Akhlomov himself says about this simply: "You have to look with your eyes, but see with your mind!" Perhaps that is why his works are so lively and interesting. Per long years Victor Akhlomov's works have a real collection with autographs and commemorative inscriptions famous people taken in his pictures of the same people. And many of his pictures, without exaggeration, are known to the whole world.

Vladimir Vyatkin

Vladimir Vyatkin is not only a high-class photographer, but also an extremely active person. It would seem that a photographer who won the most prestigious Golden Eye prize in photojournalism and, at the same time, a total of three World Press Photo gold medals, can already rest on his laurels and look patronizingly at less successful colleagues, but Vladimir is not like that. He is still a full-time photojournalist for RIA Novosti, and besides, he is also a lecturer at the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University and National School television. By the way, back in 1985, the International Organization of Journalists (IOJ) awarded him the status of "International Master of Photojournalism", and since 2004 Vladimir Vyatkin has been an academician of the International Guild of Mass Media Photographers.

Vladimir Fedorenko

Vladimir Fedorenko was born in Moscow in 1949. After graduating from school, he worked at the Novosti Press Agency as a photographic assistant, where he received his first lessons in mastery. In 1970 he entered the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University. After graduation, he returned to APN as a photojournalist - and to this day Vladimir Fedorenko works as a special correspondent for RIA Novosti. He traveled to hot spots many times and was awarded the Order For Personal Courage.

Sergey Guneev

Photojournalist Sergei Guneev has worked for the Novosti Press Agency since 1977, and then for many years collaborated with Time magazine. He is one of the best sports photojournalists, having worked at ten Olympic Games since 1980. He has three World Press Photo awards at once, as well as a number of other awards won at Russian and international photo contests. Today, Sergei Guneev is one of the oldest photographers in the “Kremlin pool,” and in recent years he has mainly photographed the President of Russia.

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Sergei Ilnitsky was born in 1974 in Mariupol. He began to get involved in photography at school, and in 1994 he graduated from the Faculty of Cinematography of the Kemerovo Academy of Arts and Culture with a degree in photojournalism. Quite quickly, Sergey became one of the leading Siberian photojournalists, collaborating with various Siberian magazines and newspapers, as well as with federal and foreign media, including The Times and Herald Tribune. Sergei Ilnitskiy has received numerous awards for his work, including most recently the World Press Photo award winner.

Sergey Vasiliev

Sergey Vasiliev is not only the most famous photo reporter for the residents of Chelyabinsk, but also one of the founders of the popular newspaper Vecherny Chelyabinsk, in which he has been working from the first issue in 1968 to the present day. Now he is also the chairman of the oldest working folk group in Russia, the Chelyabinsk Photo Club. Held 27 solo exhibitions and participated in one hundred collective international photo exhibitions in various countries. Sergei Vasiliev is the only photojournalist in Russia who has at once received four top Golden Eye awards from the World Press Photo Prize, received in 1978, 1980, 1982 and 1983.

Victoria Ivleva is both a photojournalist and a writing journalist, which is not so often. She was born in Leningrad in 1956, and in the mid-70s she came to professional photography, having studied to be a photographer, first at vocational school number 90, and then at the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University. She quickly became a fairly well-known photographer, her photographs were published in Komsomolskaya Pravda, Interlocutor, Moskovskiye Novosti, Ogonyok. She soon began collaborating with foreign publications such as New York Times Magazine, Stern, Spiegel, Express, Sunday Times, Independent, Die Zeit, Focus, Marie-Claire, OjodePez and others. Currently Victoria is a special correspondent for Novaya Gazeta and the author of numerous photo series dedicated to various social and political issues.

Gennady Koposov

Gennady Koposov is one of the legends of Soviet and Russian photojournalism. He is not only a photographer, critic and photo editor, but a mentor to several generations of photojournalists. Gennady was born in 1938, and as a teenager began to actively shoot. Already at the age of 17, he began to collaborate with print media. He worked in the Leningrad department of the TASS Photo Chronicle, and since 1961 - in the photo department of the Ogonyok magazine. Gennady worked in it for many years and headed it during the years of perestroika.

And the famous photograph of Gennady Koposov - an Evenk boy wrapped in skins against the background of a caravan of deer - is the greatest success of Russian photographers in the World Press Photo competition, the only Grand Prix in all the years, and best photo 1964 year.

Alexander Lyskin is a renowned photojournalist. He worked on a regular basis at the Novosti Press Agency, the Zoloto Rossii, Rossiya and Oil of Russia magazines. He also actively cooperates with other publications, including Camera Press, SIPA, GAMMA, Forbes, Russian Newsweek, Capital Style, Business People, Liza, Ogonyok, GEO, Around the World. Since 1994 he has been a photographer of the International Fund for the Protection of Animals IFAW.

Igor Gavrilov is a well-known photographer both in Russia and abroad. Graduated from the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University. Even during his student days, he was invited to the magazine "Ogonyok". In 1987 he took part in the large-scale project "One Day in the Life of the USSR", and the next year he was invited by National Geographic to shoot the book The Soviet Union Today. During his life, Igor worked in fifty countries, took pictures in almost all hot spots of the country, almost immediately after the explosion he flew over the reactor Chernobyl nuclear power plant... Has published in the best world publications such as Paris Matsh, Le photo, Stern, Spiegel, Independent, Elle. In recent years, he has been the head of the Russian direction at the European photo agency East news.

Boris Babanov

Boris Babanov is a photographer who has managed to combine photojournalism with activities as a professional translator. He was born in 1949 and, like many photographers in this review, graduated from the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University. Worked at the Novosti Press Agency, but after perestroika? in the magazines "Itogi", "Company", "Business Chronicle", in "Nezavisimaya Gazeta". As a translator, he worked in Nigeria on the construction of an oil pipeline, from where he also brought many pictures. He is currently accredited as a special correspondent in the Federation Council and the State Duma.

Anatoly Maltsev came to photojournalism in an amazing way: he became interested in photography with the birth of his daughter, when he had a desire to capture every moment of the child's growing up. As a result, the hobby became a profession - Anatoly graduated from the faculty of working photographers at the Leningrad Union of Journalists. He began his career as a photographic assistant in the then famous Leningrad newspaper Smena. Gradually, through a number of Russian publications, Anatoly came to work at the AP agency, and then at the EPA agency (European Press Photo Agency). Founder of the Academy of Photography in St. Petersburg.

Yuri Ivanov

Yuri Ivanov, Minsk. A flyer at a fine-cloth mill. 1987 year. The picture was included in the "Best Photos of the World in 10 Years (1980-1990)". Time-Life

Yuri Ivanov? one of the most famous Russian photographers in the world. He was born in 1939 in Simferopol; being a student of the 10th grade, he was already quite professionally engaged in photography. He worked for the newspapers Znamya Yunosti, Sovetskaya Belorussia, the Novosti Press Agency, collaborated with the Ogonyok magazine. He became truly famous for his participation in the project “One Day in the Life of the USSR”. The snapshot "Letuchka", created within the framework of this project, was included in the list of the best photographs in the world in ten years. In the same year, Yuri became one of the 100 best photographers in the world. He is currently a photojournalist for the Kultura newspaper.

Yuri Teush

Yuri Teush, it would seem, should have been far from photography, but eventually became a famous photojournalist. He was born in Chelyabinsk. Graduated from the Automotive and Tractor Faculty of the Chelyabinsk Polytechnic Institute. There he taught at the department of general technical disciplines. Career far from photography! But being a keen photographer, Yuri organized the photographic department of the faculty of social professions of the ChGPI, and then became one of the organizers of the first photo club in Chelyabinsk. He worked for the newspapers "Soviet Sport" and "Chelyabinsk Rabochy".

Max Alpert

Max Alpert is a famous Soviet photographer and photojournalist, one of the founders of the Soviet school of photo reporting. He started working as a photographer at Rabochaya Gazeta, in the 1930s he worked as editor of the photo department of the newspaper Pravda. During the Great Patriotic War, Max was a photojournalist for TASS and the Soviet Information Bureau, regularly went to the front. It is not surprising that he, among the few others, was entrusted with filming the Victory Parade in 1945. After the war, he worked for the Novosti Press Agency for many years.

Sergey Maximishin

Sergey Maksimishin is a well-known photographer who has won numerous professional awards. Multiple laureate of the Press Photo of Russia and World Press Photo awards. In addition to Russian media, he collaborates with Stern, Time, Geo, Business Week, Focus, Corriere della Sera, The Washington Post, The Times, The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Liberation, Parool, Der Profile. Author of the book “The Last Empire. Twenty Years Later ”, dedicated to life in the former USSR two decades after its collapse.

Georgy Pinkhasov is a photographer, photojournalist and photo artist. He was born in Moscow in 1952, and after school he entered the cameraman department of VGIK. He worked as an assistant cameraman at Mosfilm. I started taking pictures as a student, but reportage photography got carried away only in the 80s. In 1988 he became the first Russian employee of the Magnum agency. Collaborates with Geo, Actuel, New York Times Magazine.

Yuri Belinsky

Yuri Belinsky was born in 1946 and since school has been professionally engaged in photography, publishing in the press as a teenager. After leaving school, he worked at the Leningrad newsreel studio as an assistant cameraman, and from 1967 to the present day - a staff member of TASS (now ITAR-TASS). In addition to photojournalism, Yuri is engaged in photo illustrations, as well as landscape, portrait and subject photography.

Yuri Kozyrev

Yuri Kozyrev is a successful photographer, winner of many awards, including 6 World Press Photo Awards for his photographs from Chechnya, Iraq, Beslan and Libya. For 20 years of work, Yuri blessed all the major conflicts in the former USSR, including the two Chechen wars, as well as many foreign conflicts - for example, he lived in Baghdad from 2003 to 2009, working as a photographer for Time magazine. Since 2011, Yuri has taken many photographs of the events of the "Arab Spring", traveling in Egypt, Bahrain, Libya and Yemen. Yuri has many professional awards, but one of the clear signs of his authority in international photography is that in 2001, 2002 and 2010 he was a member of the World Press Photo jury.

Pavel Krivtsov

Pavel Krivtsov is a photographer and photojournalist, one of the few working in the genre of religious photography. He was born in 1943 in the village of Rozhdestvenka, Belgorod Region. He worked in various publications, including the Ogonyok magazine. In the 90s, he left for free swimming, implementing his own creative projects. They are connected, for the most part, with Orthodoxy and Russia. For example, for over 50 years, Pavel has been creating a series of portraits of ordinary Russian people, revealing the soul of the people to the viewer. “I try to simple things see and reveal the secret of life, albeit small. I confess photography that is discreet in appearance and call it “quiet photography”. But such a photograph can convey not at all quiet states and processes. "

Sergey Kivrin

Sergey Kivrin was born in 1955 in the family of the famous Soviet photographer Vladislav Kivrin. Unsurprisingly, as a teenager, he first picked up a camera. And today Sergey Kivrin is the best sports photographer in Russia, as well as a professional photojournalist who has also visited hot spots. Collaborates with Associated Press, REUTERS, France Press, Eastern Network, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, the best foreign and Russian magazines. Sergey's author's exhibitions are held almost every year and attract many viewers who are not indifferent to contemporary photography, especially sports photography.

Igor Kostin

Igor Kostin was born in 1936 in Moldova and for a considerable part of his life was quite far from professional photography. He graduated from the Moscow Civil Engineering Institute, then worked as a designer for 20 years. However, in the mid-70s, Igor felt a desire to change something and eventually took up documentary and news photography. Since 1974 he has been a special photojournalist for the Ukrainian branch of the APN. Igor Kostin was the first to be at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant after the accident, and throughout 1986, risking his health and life, he filmed the liquidation of the Chernobyl accident. His pictures were then included in the official report of the government commission. In the next 20 years, Igor was engaged in his own investigation of the events, collecting unique photographic material, consisting of hundreds of thousands of photographs.

Valdis Browns

Valdis Browns was born in the Latvian Ventspils in the victorious year 1945. He started taking photographs in 1966 at the Moment photo club in Ventspils. Then he worked as a photographer both in institutions and in print media. In 1978, he was one of the first to become a World Press Photo laureate. A year later, he was awarded the honorary title of EFIAP by the International Association for Photographic Art (FIAP), and the highest title of AFIAP Photo Artist was awarded to him in 1990. Today, he has nearly three hundred exhibitions, books, photographs in museums and private collections around the world.

Lev Sherstennikov

Lev Sherstennikov is an experienced photojournalist. Born in 1938 in Ufa and in early childhood became interested in photography. Graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Film Engineers. Since 1957 he was published in the main photojournal of the country "Soviet Photo", in the newspapers "Smena", "Evening Leningrad", "Leningradskaya Pravda". Since 1963 he has been at the Ogonyok editorial office, where he worked for 40 years. He currently works for Audi Magazin. He published several books together with another legend of Ogonyok, Gennady Koposov. About his vocation he says: “A person becomes a reporter when he first directs the lens at strangers. Their behavior, state turns out to be no less attractive than beautiful picture- landscape".

Andrey Soloviev

Andrey Solovyov is one of those photographers who joined the mournful list of the dead with a camera in their hands. In 1987, being an amateur photographer, he came to work at TASS Photo Chronicle. Then he collaborated with the American news agency Associated Press and published in Nezavisimaya Gazeta. With the onset of local conflicts in countries the former USSR actively traveled to hot spots: Nagorno-Karabakh, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Transnistria, Tajikistan, Fergana, South Ossetia and Abkhazia. During the August 1991 events, he was near the White House.

Andrey died in Sukhumi in 1993, filming the course of hostilities near the Government House. “By my presence with a camera, I save people from death, with my work I try to prevent violence,” Andrei Soloviev said shortly before that business trip.

Boris Yurchenko

Boris Yurchenko is a legendary photojournalist, one of the most famous in the world. Pulitzer Prize winner and recipient of numerous professional awards. His photographs have been on the covers of Time and Newsweek magazines. He started working at the Novosti Press Agency, then became a photographer for the Associated Press, where he worked for twenty-three years. It was a difficult experience as a Soviet citizen, being a full-time employee of an American news agency. But thanks to this, he could impartially record Soviet reality, from the era of stagnation to the collapse of Soviet power and the formation new Russia... This has made him one of the most famous photojournalists and has earned him many of the most prestigious awards.

Alexander Zemlyanichenko

Alexander Zemlyanichenko was born in 1950 in Saratov, in the family of a professional photojournalist. After graduation, he went to work for the regional newspaper Zarya Molodezhi. And, perhaps, his talent as a photo chronicler would not have been fully revealed, but in the early 80s, at the invitation of Aleksey Nodiy, the editor of the fashionable magazine "Peer", he moved to Moscow. Then he worked in the newspaper "Komsomolskaya Pravda", in 1988 he began filming for the Associated Press (AR), and a few years later became the head of the photo service of the Moscow bureau of AP. Today he is a photographer for the Kremlin pool, twice Pulitzer Prize winner. His works, among other things, are used by the press service of President Vladimir Putin as official.

Vladimir Velengurin is a historian by training. Perhaps it was this that influenced his desire to fix for himself what will become history tomorrow. Vladimir worked in the newspapers Komsomolets Kuban, Sovetskaya Kuban, collaborated with the TASS Photo Chronicle. In 1989, thanks to his victory in the editorial competition, he was invited to work at Komsomolskaya Pravda, where he works to this day. He was on more than fifty business trips to hot spots in the CIS and foreign countries: Chechnya, South Ossetia, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Uganda, Yugoslavia, Abkhazia. Today Vladimir is actively working as a photographer for the presidential and prime minister's pool.

Valery Khristoforov is a photojournalist best known for his photographs of Mikhail Gorbachev, whose personal photographer he was. Valery started as a photo lab assistant in the TASS Photo Chronicle, and then worked there as a photojournalist. Collaborated with many other publications. Since 1997, Valery has been working for the newspaper Argumenty i Fakty, preferring to do sharp social reporting from all over the country.

Alexander Makarov

Alexander Makarov was born in Riga in 1936, even before Latvia became part of the USSR. He became interested in photography as a child. He was educated at the directing department of the Institute of Culture, but from 1962 until the end of his life he worked as a staff photojournalist for the Novosti Press Agency. Thanks to his education, he was his own man in theatrical circles, which brought him the greatest photographic fame. He released, in particular, a unique album of ballet photos, published in many countries of the world. In the last years of his life he was engaged in political reporting, was a personal photographer of Raisa Gorbacheva, and from 1993 until his death he worked with Viktor Chernomyrdin.

Eduard Pesov

Eduard Pesov is an experienced photographer with a non-trivial specialization. He was born in 1932 in Tbilisi, and in 1963, having won a competition organized by the newspaper Pravda, he moved to Moscow and went to work at the Novosti Press Agency. Later he worked in the TASS Photo Chronicle, and from 1977 to the present day, for more than 35 years, he has been working as a photographer in the Foreign Ministry Secretariat. Eduard Pesov removed all foreign ministers from the time of Gromyko and all heads of state from the time of Khrushchev. For work, he traveled to almost all countries of the world, in total there are more than one hundred and sixty.

Alexander Kopachev

Alexander Kopachev was born in 1950 in the town of Lyubertsy near Moscow. He has been photographing since childhood, but he became seriously interested in photography later, when he bought a Zenit V camera from his first salary. For some time he worked as a freelance correspondent for the local newspaper Lyuberetskaya Pravda. Then he studied at the lecture hall on photo reporting at the Central House of Journalists and at the Institute of Journalism Skills. But this was not enough for him, so Alexander also graduated from the journalism faculty of Moscow State University. After graduation, he worked in the newspapers "Gudok" and "Courants", in the magazines "Business People" and "Nashe Kino". He is currently the head of the PressPhoto news agency.

Valery Zufarov

Valery Zufarov, a well-known Soviet photojournalist, worked for Komsomolskaya Pravda, then for TASS Photo Chronicle. In addition to photography, he actively dabbled in the field of newspaper journalism, was a literary editor. As a photojournalist, he actively filmed sports events, including the Olympics (including the 1980 Olympics). Valery Zufarov was the first of the photojournalists who flew in a helicopter over the destroyed reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, as a result of which he received a huge dose of radiation.

Sergei Preobrazhensky

Sergei Sergeevich Preobrazhensky is a legendary photojournalist for the TASS newsreel. Born in 1912, he began photographing in the late 1920s. Since 1939, a member of the Union of Journalists of the USSR. In the Photo Chronicle, TASS shot in various genres - and the inevitable portraits of the foremost workers of labor, science and technology, and political reporting, and sports. One of the first journalists he had a chance to visit both poles of the earth, which, of course, was expressed in the most interesting reports. Until his retirement in 1972, Sergei Preobrazhensky continued to actively work as a photojournalist for TASS.

Dmitry Donskoy

Duel. Vladimir Myshkin - the USSR hockey team goalkeeper defends the goal. 1979. Donskoy Dmitry

Dmitry Donskoy is a photojournalist, one of the most famous employees of the Novosti Press Agency. A graduate of the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University, in 1961 he came as a special correspondent to the APN (hereinafter RIA Novosti), where he worked - it's hard to believe - until 2006. He was a personal photographer of the first president of Russia, Boris N. Yeltsin. From 1975 to this day he has been teaching at the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University. Dmitry Donskoy has repeatedly received the most prestigious Russian and international professional awards, in total he has more than one hundred and sixty.

Alexander Grashchenkov is a photographer and radio journalist, winner of the "Golden Eye" World Press Photo. He worked as a photojournalist for RIA Novosti, a columnist for the Voice of Russia radio and the BBC. Member of the Union of Journalists of Russia, author and director of documentary films. He shot a lot in hot spots, and Alexander gained his first real fame in connection with his report from Afghanistan, which showed the other side of the stay of Soviet troops in this country.

Victor Zagumennov

Real fame came to Viktor Zagumennov after a series of photo essays from the life of the Russian North, which in his vision turned out to be so lively and unusual that it could not fail to impress literally everyone. Today he is a two-time World Press Photo laureate, winner of numerous awards at international photo exhibitions and competitions, although he himself calls his style nothing but “Country and People”.

Vladimir Semin

Well-known Russian photojournalist. Repeated winner of World Press Photo and PressPhotoRussia, holder of the authoritative in the world photography grant of Eugene Smith “The W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund”. His projects Behind the Monastery Wall, Holy Springs, Abandoned Villages, Forgotten People brought him well-deserved fame not only in Russia, but also among the world's best photographers.

Boris Kaufman was born in 1938 in Baku. Studied at the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University. From 1961 he worked for a decade and a half at the Novosti Press Agency as a photojournalist. One of the first Soviet photographers, whose personal exhibition was held in Western countries (1972, London). From 1976 to 1991 he was a photojournalist, then head of the illustrations department of the Moscow News newspaper. From 1991 to 2006, Boris Kaufman worked at the NG-Photo Agency, and as deputy editor-in-chief of Nezavisimaya Gazeta.