To the 70th anniversary of the Great Victory: The exhibition “From the photo archive of military correspondents” in the Leningrad region

To the 70th anniversary of the Victory in the exhibition hall of the Museum-Reserve "Breakthrough of the Siege of Leningrad" (Kirov) runs the exhibition "From the photo archives of military correspondents". The exhibition features 98 works from the collection of the Novgorod State United Museum. These are works by famous correspondents, masters of art photography Ivan Shagin and Eugene Chaldey. The exhibition runs until 25 February 2015.

Ivan Mikhailovich Shagin - photographer of the newspaper "Komsomolskaya Pravda". Since the beginning of the war, he became a military photojournalist, filmed from the first to the last day - from the announcement of the German attack on the Soviet Union before the signing of the surrender in Berlin in May 1945. He is an author of many famous war photographs. After the war he continued to work in the "Komsomolskaya Pravda".

Eugene Chaldey - one of the most famous Soviet photographers, the correspondent of "Photo chronicles TASS". He was the editor of the agency in the Great Patriotic War - participated in the liberation of Sevastopol, the storming of Novorossiysk, Kerch, the liberation of Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Austria and Hungary. All 1,418 days with his Leica, he walked from Murmansk to Berlin, took Paris meeting of Ministers of Foreign Affairs, the defeat of the Japanese in the Far East, a conference of heads of the Allied Powers in Potsdam, hoisting the flag over Reichstag, the signing of the act of surrender of Germany. At the Nuremberg trials his photographs served as evidence material of crime.