Yuriy Abramochkin

Yuri Vasilyevich Abramochkin (; 11 December 1936 – 5 April 2018 ) was a Soviet and Russian photographer and photojournalist.

Career Abramochkin started to work as a photojournalist at 21, in the office of "Mosstroy" (Main department of building and planning in Moscow) with the primary job of photographing plans. He got a chance to try himself in photography in 1957 when he was offered the position of official photographer of the World Festival of Youth and Students in Moscow. He also took photos of Komsomolskiy Prospekt for "Mosstroy" and those photos were published by Soviet Weekly, the Soviet newspaper for capitalist countries. Abramochkin worked for Soviet Weekly for forty years. In 1961 he started to work as a photographer of the news agency Novosti. Yuri Abramochkin is one of 15 Russian photojournalists included in the encyclopedia Contemporary Photographers, published by St. James Press in 1995.

Abramochkin worked with Soviet and world leaders, politicians and celebrities, making among others the photos of Nikita Khrushchev, Leonid Brezhnev, Mikhail Gorbachev, Boris Yeltsin, Charles de Gaulle, Willy Brandt, François Mitterrand, Richard Nixon, Urho Kekkonen, Jacques Chirac, Bill Clinton, Yuri Gagarin, Ronald Reagan, Valentina Tereshkova and Elizabeth II.

Gallery

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions 1970 — Photographs from the U.S.S.R., City Museum, Sopron, Hungary 1972 — Yugoslavia 1974 — U.S.S.R.: Country and People, Photo Artists' Salon, Belgrade 2009 — Yuri Abramochkin — Photoessay. Brothers Lumière Gallery. Moscow

Group exhibitions 1961: National Photo Exhibition, Manege Exhibition Hall, Moscow 1962: International Photo-Agency Exhibition, Prague 1964: WorldPress Photo, Amsterdam (and 1965–69, 1975–76, 1978) 1966: Interpress Photo '66, Manege Exhibition Hall, Moscow 1975: Fotosuit de Sovjet Unie, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam 1976: Photographs from the U.S.S.R., Trade Fair Hall, West Berlin 1979: Interpress Photo '79, Havana 1980: Sportas Ambassador of Peace, Manege Exhibition Hall, Moscow

Books Yuriy Abramochkin, Russia as I see her: Photoalbum 1960–2013. Moscow: Scanrus, 2013. . Text in English. (Here at Issuu.com.)

Awards Golden Eye Award. World Press Photo. 1987. For the picture of Mathias Rust Honored Cultural Worker of the RSFSR