World history: Photo exhibition “Triumph and Tragedy: the Allies of the Second World War” in Chelyabinsk

August 12, 2015 in Chelyabinsk is opened a photo exhibition "Triumph and Tragedy: the Allies of the Second World War". The museum features more than hundreds of historical photographs taken by British and American photo correspondents. The war, the triumph and tragedy of death and victory - the pictures tell of such events of the Second World War as the Battle of Britain, the battle in North Africa and the Pacific, the Allied landing in Normandy, the fighting in France and western Germany. Among the authors are the great photographers of the XX century, Eugene Smith, Robert Capa, Cecil Beaton, Ansel Adams. Some of the images are included in an anthology of outstanding photographs of all time.

The exhibition is organized by the Photographic Museum "House of Metenkov" in cooperation with the US Consulate General in Yekaterinburg and the British Consulate General in Yekaterinburg. In Chelyabinsk, it was supplemented by images of Soviet photographers - such as South Ural photojournalist Arkady Khodov, - talking about the formation and ways to combat the Chelyabinsk tank brigades and the production of military equipment during the war in the southern Urals, in the factories and enterprises of Tankograd.

The event dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the Second World War, a similar exhibition was held on the eve of Victory Day in Yekaterinburg. Opening of the Chelyabinsk exposition is timed to one of the major events of the final stage of the Second World War - the Soviet-Japanese War, which took place from August 9 to September 2, 1945.