Andrey Soloviev

Andrey Borisovich Soloviev (Russian: Андрей Борисович Соловьёв; 7 October 1953 September 27, 1993) was a Soviet war photographer.

Andrey Soloviev
Born7 October 1953
Died27 September 1993 (aged 39)
Cause of deathKilled in action (gunshot wound)
NationalityUSSR
OccupationWar photographer

He was killed by sniper fire while covering the battle for Sukhumi in the Abkhazian war.[1]

Soloviev studied at the Moscow Institute of Architecture but never graduated. Instead, he became a photojournalist, joining the Itar-TASS news agency in 1987. He also worked as a stringer for the Associated Press.

After the break-up of the Soviet Union, Andrey Soloviev covered many armed conflicts, including in Nagorno-Karabakh, Transnistria, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, South Ossetia. He also filmed the aftermath of the 1988 Armenian earthquake, the collapse of the regime of Nicolae Ceauşescu, and was in Iraq during the Gulf War.

His photographs received numerous awards, including the World Press Photo prize.

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