Yuriy Abramochkin

Yuriy Vasilyevich Abramochkin (Юрий Васильевич Абрамочкин; normally rendered in English as Yuriy or Yuri Abramochkin, 11 December 1936 – 5 April 2018) was a Soviet and Russian photographer and photojournalist.

Abramochkin worked with Soviet and world leaders, politicians and celebrities, making among others the photos of Nikita Khrushchev, Leonid Brezhnev, Mikhail Gorbachev, Boris Yeltsin, Charles de Gaulle, Willy Brandt, Francois Mitterrand, Richard Nixon, Urho Kekkonen, Jacques Chirac, Bill Clinton, Yuri Gagarin, Ronald Reagan, Valentina Tereshkova and Elizabeth II.

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Other websites
Yuriy Abramochkin, as retrieved by the Wayback Machine on 2 May 2014
Interview with Yuriy Abramochkin in Sakharov Center

Category:Russian artists
Category:Photojournalists
Category:Russian journalists
Category:1936 births
Category:2018 deaths