Sovinformburo is 85. The frontline correspondents of Victory
The legendary Soviet Information Bureau, also known as Sovinformburo, was established 85 years ago, on the third day of a brutal war. In June 1941, we turned the word into a weapon and wielded it as if it was a rifle. “From the Soviet Information Bureau” – these words spoken by Yury Levitan in his inimitable voice inspired hope and became one of the symbols of the Great Patriotic War.
This exhibition focuses on those who looked death in its face through the lens of their cameras and reported the truth while facing enemy fire. It is about the Great Patriotic War’s frontline correspondents, those who used their Leica and FED cameras to capture images of the Soviet and European cities lying in ruins and the Nazi atrocities. It is about those who told the story of the heroic deeds accomplished by the army and on the homefront, about the soldiers heading into battle and children working at defense manufacturing plants.
Anatoly Garanin, Georgy Zelma, Roman Karmen, Oleg Knorring, Olga Lander, Mark Redkin, Konstantin Simoniv, Arkady Shaikhet, Ilya Erenburg and many others chronicled the horrible war and became the heralds of the Great Victory.
