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Yevgeni Khaldei was born in Donezk/Ukraine in 1917. In 1936 he starts working as a photographer for the Soviet news agency TASS.
From June 22nd 1941, the day of the German attack on the Soviet Union, he documented WWII with his camera, witnessing innumerable battles from Murmansk in the North to the Black Sea.
Being both soldier and photographer, Khaldei experienced and documented the withdrawal of the German troops and the Soviets’ subsequent advance and takings of Belgrade, Budapest, Vienna and Berlin. He worked as a press photographer at the Potsdam Conference in August of 1945 and at the Nuremberg trials the following year. With short interruptions, he continued working for TASS and “Prawda” into the 1970’s.
He died October 6th 1997 in Moscow.
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