On the 70th anniversary of the Great Victory: "The Roads of War" Photo Exhibition in the Rostov Region

"The Roads of war" photo exhibition of war correspondent Anatoly Arkhipov opened in the "People's House" tour and exhibition center (M. A. Sholokhov State National Park and Museum, Rostov Region).

The name of Anatoly Arkhipov was almost forgotten. Many of his photos were released and copied without publishing the author's name or even assigned to other photographers. But thanks to the photo reporter’s son, who saved a large private archive of negatives, part of it, telling about wartime, is presented at the exhibition.

Anatoly Arkhipov marched through the entire war and filmed in 1945 prostrate Berlin. These snapshots of the war are also the pages of the war photojournalist’s biography. They can tell when, where, in what front and in which the battle the reporter were. Like many other war correspondents he faced the complicated tasks, since it was not enough just to shoot, but to develop the film and deliver to the newspaper.

The photos in the exhibition are quite different in content: there are the soldiers on the battlefields and during the temporary lull hours, at reconnaissance operations and at the bivouacs, in a combat patrol and on the march, at a patrol watch and on marches. Land in fire, pitted with craters of mines and shells, the cities turned into ruins. In a moment of rest soldiers are watching the volunteer-artist’s performance. The images of the last days of the war: the streets of taken Berlin, the steaming strictures of destroyed buildings, the riddled with bullets columns of Reichstag.

Most of presented at the exhibition Anatoly Arkhipov’s photographs the public will see for the first time.

The exhibition will run until 26 of July 2014.