Soviet Photographers: Igor Kostin, Mikhail Evstafiev, Gustav Klutsis, Boris Mikhailov, Pyotr Otsup, Mikhail Kaufman, Pavel Novitsky (Eng)

Chapters: Igor Kostin, Mikhail Evstafiev, Gustav Klutsis, Boris Mikhailov, Pyotr Otsup, Mikhail Kaufman, Pavel Novitsky. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 30. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Igor Fedorovich Kostin (born 27 December 1936 in Bessarabia, Greater Romania) was the only photographer in the world to take pictures of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster near Pripyat in Ukraine, on 26 April 1986 - the day of the worst nuclear accident in history. He was working for Novosti Press Agency (APN) as a photographer in Kiev, Ukraine, when he represented Novosti to cover the nuclear accident in Chernobyl. Kostins aerial view of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant was widely published around the world, showing the extent of the devastation, and triggering fear throughout the world of radioactivity contamination the accident caused, when the Soviet...