Images don’t die… |
This photo is from 33 years ago newspaper– browses the pages of magazines, then online publications. Everyone knows under what circumstances it was shot, what event it reflects. 22 january 1990 year. Freedom Square. The crowd gathered for the funeral of the martyrs.
But there is little information about the author of the picture. Andrey Solovyov, photojournalist of ITAR-TASS agency.
In the Soviet republics during the period of reconstruction national-Andrey was a student of the architecture faculty at the institute when the liberation movement and ethnic conflicts broke out. But he dropped out of the faculty and joined the ITAR-TASS photojournalism. At the same time, Associated Press (USA) started cooperation with the agency. In Azerbaijan, Armenia, in Georgiasent to hot spots in Moldova, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Romania and Iraq.
In 1989, he was awarded the prestigious World Press Photo international award. The photo series submitted for nomination included the following photo taken by Andrey in Baku.
Soviet army in January 1990 20He was in Azerbaijan when he committed a massacre in Baku. When he left, he gave the films of the pictures he took on the streets, in the morgue, and at the funeral to Azerinform (now AzerTAC), and he took one color film, where he could not make out his face, to TASS.
In 1993, Andrey Solovyov went on his last business trip to Abkhazia. He was shot by a sniper while filming the battles in front of the Government House in Sukhumi.
“Witnesses say that Andrey was hiding and working a short distance from the building of the Council of Ministers, near the small market. At that moment, a name came out and he shouted for help. Andrey was not indifferent in such situations. Although he knew that there were Georgian snipers everywhere, he jumped up and ran to help the woman. At that very moment, a sniper shot him right in the neck…”– journalist Anna Broydo recalls.
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