Alexander Wassiljewitsch Ustinow

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Ustinov photo from 1941
The American patrol crossing the Elbe to the Red Army positions in Kreinitz on April 25, 1945

Alexander Wassiljewitsch Ustinow ( Russian Александр Васильевич Устинов ; * 1909 in Moscow ; † February 8, 1995 ) was a Soviet photographer, photojournalist and author.

Ustinov began taking photos in the 1930s and quickly became a freelance correspondent for the Krasnaya Voin and Krasnaya Zvezda newspapers . From 1935 to 1937 he photographed the construction of the Moscow subway . From 1939 he was employed as a photographer for the newspaper Krasnaya Zvezda .

From 1941 to 1945 - during the Second World War - Alexander Ustinov was war correspondent for Pravda . In this context, he created the historic photos of the first meeting of American and Soviet soldiers on Elbe Day on April 25, 1945. On the morning of April 16, Ustinow was ordered by Marshal Konew to fly to Kreinitz to do a photo report on the first encounter of the US Army with the Red Army to produce. Since the event had already taken place the day before, it was recreated with the original protagonists: those involved in the patrol of Lt. Albert Kotzebue , including Joe Polowsky , boarded the pull ferry again and were received again by Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Gordejew, officers Alexander Goloborodko, Kozlov, Ivanov and medical sergeant Lyuba Kozintschenkowa so that Ustinov could take the photos. Then he flew back to Moscow. Parallel to Ustinow, Georgiy Khomzor (1914–1990) photographed the events in Kreinitz and also in Torgau, who reported for Krasnaya Zvezda .

After the war, Ustinov became the official photographer for the government of the Soviet Union in 1945. His photos have been exhibited internationally several times.

In May 1984 Ustinow visited the Riesa-Torgau region again.

literature

  • Alexander Ustinow: С «лейкой» и блокнотом (With Leica and notebook) , Iskusstvo, 1985, Ustinow's memoir

Secondary literature

  • Horst Bilz: The last days of the Second World War in Strehla, Strehla 1988
  • Mark Scott, Semyon Krasilshchik (ed.): Yanks meet Rote , Militärverlag Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-327-00986-4 . Reports from American and Soviet soldiers who attended the meeting.

Web links

Commons : Alexander Ustinov  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Araz Yusubov: Yanks meet Reds, in: Terp Notes, April 25, 2014
  2. ↑ Horst Bilz: The last days of the Second World War in Strehla, Strehla 1988, p. 66/67
  3. ↑ Museum Exhibits photos from Soviet Union. Tampa Bay Newspapers weekly, April 17, 2012, accessed April 7, 2015 .
  4. ↑ USSR: From the cult of personality to the cult of society. Russia Beyond the Headlines , February 26, 2015, accessed April 7, 2015 .
  5. ↑ Horst Bilz: The last days of the Second World War in Strehla, Strehla 1988, pp. 74-76
personal data
SURNAME Ustinow, Alexander Wassiljewitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ustinov, Alexander; Устинов, Александр Васильевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Soviet photographer and photojournalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow
DATE OF DEATH February 8, 1995