Photo Yuri Abramochkin

Yuri Abramochkin - a true legend of the Soviet-Russian photojournalism. World fame he gained as a reportage photographer in our country. The heroes of his works are both well-known personalities and presidents and ordinary people. I offer you a small selection of photos of the legends of the USSR and Russia. Enjoy watching! Celina a rejuvenation. Kostanai region. 1962

Yuri Abramochkin with Yuri Gagarin, 1961

Yuri Gagarin, Gzhatsk, 1961
Gagarin with his mother, grandmother and older sister. The picture was taken at a new home, suddenly built on the site of his father's wreck. A father of a picture there. Alex Gagarin to the point as it should have, "said" the arrival of his son.

Moscow, Red Square, 1962
The arrival of Khrushchev caused great expectations. The people have a desire to participate more actively in society.

Electronic, Moscow, Red Square, 1962
A few years later banned cars cross the area. A change occurred in Russia changed and a set of car: a place of "Volga", "Muscovites" and "Victory" embodied in this picture, and we have become a rarity, have taken foreign brands.

Settlers. 1964
At the initiative of the country Khrushchev made a bid for the development of heavy industry. Buildings need to move to the east, beyond the Urals hundreds of thousands of people who had to settle somewhere. Began construction of prefabricated five-story block, they will be called "Khrushchev". They multiply across the country under the name of Moscow Cheryomushki district. The Soviet Union will come out on top in the world in the number of housing under construction. In search of a better life immigrants from Central Russia travel to Siberia with their entire families. If suitcases, then out of town. If a village, the entire belongings fit into bales, boxes, bags. In the villages there were no suitcases. They were replaced by heavy and strong trunks, which from generation to generation handed down. Their ostavalyali home. All the hardships of travel and habitation in a new place fell on the shoulders of women. Most of the men did not return from the war.

A little snack and school news. Moscow. 1965
Europe's largest hotel "Russia", designed for 5,300 seats, only constructed. It was intended for delegates Party Congresses - from here to the Kremlin Palace was on the doorstep. For the prestige of the buffer zone of the capital destroyed the monuments of XV-XVIII centuries. In 2007, 40 years later, the hotel was dismantled. Someone next building ambitions?

Moscow. 1969
Found out. After all, its burden is not felt. And like a difficult load, and the expression on the faces of elation.

Horsemen. Dagestan. 1968

The crew of "Three heroes". 1980
This picture I made in the new three-room apartment where the young family moved to Moscow journalist. So editors awarded his employee for the birth of triplets. But behind this government decree. If the family grows triplets, received an increase in living space. Free. The decision of the authorities proved an effective way of encouraging fertility. An experience that could serve us today.

State leaders welcomed the participants of the parade on Red Square.

Boney M on Red Square, 1978
Boney M - one of the first bands of the West in the disco. She came on tour in the USSR and gladly posed for me in the main square of the country. My photo essay about her concerts in Moscow was published in the German magazine "Stern". He brought the agency a significant amount in the currency, and to me ... the threat of party reprimand "for the promotion of bourgeois culture and morals." Only a call from the Kremlin to put an end to this APN absurd "case».

The funeral of Konstantin Chernenko. Moscow, 1985

The queue to the Mausoleum, 1987
In 1987, I participated in an international project "One Day in the Life of the Soviet Union" and was ordered to remove all wondering what will happen on the appointed day in the Kremlin. I first realized this without interference. And the Spasskaya Tower to see all of our national mummies. It seemed to me that this flow of people is itself part of the architecture of the area looked.