Izvestia organized photo exhibitions from archival footage from the Second World War

On the eve of the Victory Day celebration, Izvestia, together with its partners, organized photo exhibitions of rare archival footage from the Great Patriotic War. Until the end of May, they can be seen in Krasnaya Presnya Park, Hermitage Garden and Pulkovo Airport.

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In addition, photographs of Izvestia employees will become part of the expositions "War Correspondents on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War" on Gogol Boulevard and "The Day We Won" in Vorontsovsky Park.

Izvestia's correspondents were among the main chroniclers of the war. In the early days of the Great Patriotic War, 52 employees of the publication went to the front. In total, from 1941 to 1945, more than 300 Izvestia soldiers worked on the front line. Among them are such outstanding photographers as Georgy Samsonov, Dmitry Baltermants, Pavel Troshkin, Georgy Khomzor, Mikhail Grachev, Anatoly Skurikhin, Anatoly Egorov and Georgy Zelma.

Dmitry Baltermants' famous photograph "Attack" was taken in 1941 near Maloyaroslavets, at one of the most dramatic moments of the war. The photographer lay down in a trench, capturing soldiers jumping over it. And it turned out to be a hymn to a heroic impulse, full of aspiration and determination. The faces are practically invisible, these are no longer specific people, but a generalized image of the defenders of the country flying towards the enemy and Victory, then still so far away.

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