History of Russia: Photo works of the war photo correspondent, participant of the Great Patriotic War Alexander Ustinov, are presented in Saint-Petersburg

In the State Museum and Exhibition Center "ROSPHOTO" (St. Petersburg) to October 2, 2016 is represented a photo project "Alexander Ustinov. Test prints", which represents the work of the military press photographer, participant of the Great Patriotic War.

The project "Alexander Ustinov. Test prints" represents the audience 96 works made in the period from the mid 1930s to 1942, revealing the process of selecting photos to print in the official press of the Soviet Union. Many of the images are presented in the exhibition displays for the first time. First of all, pictures taken by A. Ustinov in the summer of 1939 in the military camps of the Red Army; in late 1939 on the Karelian Isthmus, in the beginning of the Soviet-Finnish "Winter War"; in the first half of June 1941 in Ukraine and in 1941-1942 on the Volkhov front near Leningrad.

Combining photos taken at different times and in different places, the exhibition draws attention to the important, but often imperceptible events that determined the life and destiny of the Soviet people in the pre-war years and the first years of the war. Photos made by Ustinov for "Red Star" and "Truth" does not reflect the suffering and horrors of war, but prepared to help the viewer to think about the fact that behind the scenes of the official history.