A legendary Soviet and Russian photographer and photojournalist
Yuriy Abramochkin died on April, 5 aged 81. His daughter Tatiana advised to RIA Novosti that her father had a heart attack.
Yuriy Vasilievich started his professional career in the informational agency Novosti (The News) as early as 1960. Now this agency is called Russia Today. He worked there until 2003. For all of these years the photojournalist gathered a considerable photo collection: celebrities’ portraits of different time periods, the most important country’s historical events and life stories of common people. Abramochkin took pictures of Yuri Gagarin, Mikhail Gorbachev and Fidel Castro. The photo exhibitions of the photographer were arranged in different parts of the world.
Yuriy Vasilievich is a holder of the Golden Eye award. He was also included into the international publication The Contemporary Photographers published by St. James Press Chicago & London.
“First of all, he was a professional, and, secondly, he was a professional. Yuriy performed miracles for all of his life,” photographer Dmitri Donskoi said to the journalists. Colleagues remember Yuriy Abramochkin with great warmth and express condolences to the relatives of the photographer.
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