Alexander Fadeev (1901–1956) was a Soviet writer, a public figure, a journalist, and a war correspondent.
He wrote his first major work, the novella The Flood, in 1922–1923. In 1925–1926, while working on the novel The Rout, which brought him fame and recognition, he decided to become a professional writer. He is also known for his novel The Last of the Udege, dedicated to the Civil War. No less well-known is his novel The Young Guard, about a Krasnodon underground organization that operated in the territory occupied by Nazi Germany, many of whose members were killed by the Nazis. For many years, A. Fadeev headed writers’ organizations of various levels and held various positions in the USSR Union of Writers. From 1942 to 1944, he was the Editor-in-Chief of Literaturnaya Gazeta, founded the Oktyabr magazine and was a member of its editorial board. During the Great Patriotic War, he was a war correspondent for the Pravda newspaper and the Soviet Information Bureau.
The postage stamp provides a portrait of Alexander Fadeev; in the background, there are the The Young Guard book, the Pravda newspaper, and a manuscript.
Pyotr Lidov (1906–1944) was a Soviet journalist and a war correspondent for the Pravda newspaper, and the author of the first essay Tanya about Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya (1942).
From the very first days of the Great Patriotic War, P. Lidov became a war correspondent; his first war report was submitted to the editorial office of Pravda on June 22 of 1941, and published in the June 24 issue. He traveled to dangerous sections of the frontline, flew with a bomber crew into German rear areas, worked under bombardment, and made forays into German-occupied territories. He wrote about military operations near Smolensk, the partisans of Belarus and the situation in occupied Minsk, and produced reports. In June of 1944, he was sent to Poltava with the assignment to write about the Flying Fortresses base of the American allies. He was killed in action with the rank of major on June 22, 1944, by the blast wave from a Junkers aircraft, which he and his comrades had shot down.
The postage stamp features a portrait of P. Lidov; in the background, there is an issue of the Pravda newspaper and the article Tanya dedicated to Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya.
Roman Karmen (autonym: Kornman; 1906–1978) was a Soviet film director, a documentary filmmaker, a war cameraman, a journalist, a scriptwriter, an educator, and an essay writer.
His first major assignment was filming the funeral of V. Lenin in the Column Hall of the House of Unions. From 1923 to 1930, he worked as a photojournalist for magazines Ogonyok, Prozhektor, and Sovetskoe Foto. In July of 1934, he filmed a report on H. G. Wells’ arrival to Moscow. On June 25 of 1941, he was drafted into military service, working as a cameraman and the head of the film team for the Northwestern Front; he filmed on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War near Moscow and Leningrad. He also worked as a war correspondent for the United Press American news agency since foreign correspondents were kept away from the frontline. He participated in the conquest of Königsberg, the forced crossing of the rivers of Neman, Vistula, and Oder, and the liberation of Warsaw; he was one of the first cinematographers to film the Majdanek concentration camp. In February of 1943, he filmed the surrender of Field Marshal F. Paulus near Stalingrad. On May 8, 1945, in Berlin, he filmed the signing of the act of Germany’s unconditional surrender. Until the mid-1970s, he filmed in Albania, Burma, Vietnam, India, Indonesia, China, and South America.
The postage stamp features a portrait of R. Karmen; in the background, there are stills from the film Leningrad in the Struggle (1942).
Yevgeny Khaldei (1917–1997) was a Soviet photographer and a war photoreporter.
From 1939, he was as a correspondent for the TASS Photochronicles. He represented the TASS editorial office in the Navy during the Great Patriotic War. He photographed the Paris Conference of Foreign Ministers, the defeat of the Japanese in the Far East, the Conference of the Allied leaders in Potsdam, the raising of the flag over the Reichstag, and the signing of Germany’s surrender. At the Nuremberg Trials, his photographs were among the presented material evidence. He participated in the photo coverage of the Potsdam Conference, the Paris Conference, and the Nuremberg Trials. After the war, he created a gallery of images depicting front-line soldiers engaged in peaceful labor. In 1959, he became a photo correspondent for the Pravda newspaper. In 1995, at the International Festival of Photojournalism in Perpignan (France), E. Khaldei was awarded the most honorary award in the world of art: the title of the Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters.
The postage stamp features a portrait of E. Khaldei; in the background, there are his photographs and a photographic film.
Aleksandr Stanovov (1921–2005) was a Soviet photographer and war photojournalist.
When a pupil of the 7th grade, he made his own camera and took his first photographs. In 1938, his photographs were published in the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper. During the Great Patriotic War, he was a correspondent for frontline newspapers We Will Defeat the Enemy and Defender of the Fatherland. In July of 1944, while in the ranks of the troops near Vilnius, he was wounded but did not leave the battlefield. He was the first among other front-line correspondents to capture the soldiers who were the first to reach the border line: Major General N. Kalinin, the commander of the 159th Rifle Division, and soldiers N. Makridov, G. Galutva, T. Gornov, A. Popov, I. Samokhin, M. Korobov, M. Khairoutdinov, and M. Surin. He also took several famous photographs of sniper R. Shanina, a holder of two Orders of Glory, and Major L. Delfino, the commander of the Normandy-Neman squadron. A photograph of partisan N. Ridlevsky with his daughters Olga and Zinaida, taken on the day of the liberation of the village of Cherei in the Chashniki District in 1944, became a symbol of the people’s struggle. In 1952, A. Stanovov took a photo of those who had put the final point in the Great Patriotic War: Heroes of the Soviet Union Mikhail Yegorov and Meliton Kantaria, who planted the Victory Banner over the Reichstag in Berlin.
The postage stamp features a portrait of A. Stanovov; in the background, there are his photographs and a photographic film.
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18 thousand sheets |