Emmanuil Yevzerikhin. A Look Into History

Emmanuil Yevzerikhin. A Look Into History

The State Museum and Exhibition Centre ROSPHOTO presents the project “Emmanuil Yevzerikhin. A Look into History”. 

The photographs of the Soviet photography classic vividly illustrate the country’s history, demonstrate the evolution of Russian photographic art, and reveal both the author’s reflections and the stories behind individual images. Evzerikhin’s fifty-year professional career, from the late 1920s to the late 1970s, coincided with epoch-making events that naturally found their reflection in the art of photography.

Emmanuil Yevzerikhin developed an interest in photography as a teenager, when his father gave him his first camera — a simple box-type model. Still a schoolboy, he became a freelance correspondent for Press-Cliché TASS.

The second half of the 1920s was a formative period for Soviet photography, marked by the rise of illustrated journalism and the first wave of mass amateur photography. Yevzerikhin later recalled that his school had formed a group called “Society of Friends of Soviet Cinema”, where students organized film screenings and used the proceeds to buy materials for their photography club, publish a photo wall newspaper, and participate in district exhibitions.

Upon finishing school, Yevzerikhin worked as a property master and photographer at the TRAM Theatre in Rostov-on-Don, as a photo technician at the House of the Communist Youth Movement, and studied at the Evening Institute of Railway Transport. Around that time, at a conference of the “Society of Friends of Soviet Cinema”, he met Semyon Evgenov, the editor-in-chief of ‘Soyuzfoto’, who then a few years later invited him to join the agency as a staff photographer and move to Moscow.

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Last updated on 16.12.2025