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Photographs from the front Evgeny Ananevich Khaldey (1916-1997) Evgeny Ananevich Khaldey (1916-1997) began his career in professional photography at age 18 and gained wide professional recognition during WWII. Mr. Khaldey’s war photos chronicled part of WWI’s history, capturing on film important documents and symbols of the battlefield. He carried his Leica through the 1,418 days of the war, from the Russian northern port of Murmansk to Berlin. He was part of the Sevastopol, Novorossiysk, and Kerch operations on the Soviet territory, and traveled through Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Austria, and Hungary with his brothers-in-arms. Georgy Anatolievich Zelma (1906-1984) Georgy Anatolievich Zelma (1906-1984) had been in photography since the late 1920s, first working at various newspapers in the Uzbek capital Tashkent, then in Moscow at the Soyuzfoto agency and the SSSR Na Stroyke magazine. Since the early days of the war, he entered service as a photo correspondent for the prominent Soviet daily Izvestia in the Ukrainian Black Sea port of Odessa. Hauled from one front to another during the war, his war career peaked during the Battle of Stalingrad. Many of his Stalingrad photos became classic war photography. After the war, Mr. Zelma became a leading photographer at the Novosti Press Agency. Arkady Samoylovich Shaykhet (1898-1959) Arkady Samoylovich Shaykhet (1898-1959) is reputed to be the founder of Soviet photography. Born in the Ukrainian city of Nikolayev, he began wartime service as a photographer with the Frontovaya Illyustratsiya newspaper and was on many fronts during the war. During the war, he found himself in Moscow, Stalingrad, on the Kursk Arch and Berlin. After the war, he returned to Ogonyok, a leading Soviet and Russian magazine, where he worked for the rest of his life, until 1959.

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