Abramochkin started to work as a photojournalist at 21, in the office of "Mosstroy" (Main department of building and planning in Moscow) with the primary job of photographing plans. He got a chance to try himself in photography in 1957 when he was offered the position of official photographer of the World Festival of Youth and Students in Moscow. He also took photos of "Komsomolskiy Prospekt" for "Mosstroy" and those photos were published by "Soviet Weekly", the Soviet newspaper for capitalist countries. Abramochkin worked for "Soviet Weekly" for forty years. In 1961 he started to work as a photographer of the news agency Novosti. Yuri Abramochkin is one of 15 Russian photojournalists included in the encyclopedia "Contemporary Photographers", published by St. James Press in 1995.