Visitors to the photo exhibit of Igor Kostin, the first Soviet photographer on the scene of the April 26, 1986, explosion at the Chernobyl power plant, are greeted by the images of burn victims The above photograph was indeed among the first taken just after the disaster occurred. Based on a number of accounts, it was also not the only shot of the site taken on April 26.Igor Kostin, as Igor Kostin. Igor Kostin (Moldova, 1936) worked for 20 years as an industrial designer before becoming a photograper. He started his photographic career as a photographer for fashion magazine Read the full biography. This image is collected in. 1987 Photo Contest. He was 78. His wife, Alla Kostin, told The Associated Press on Wednesday that her husband died the day before in an automobile accident on the outskirts of the Ukrainian capital Kiev. Within hours of the Chernobyl explosion on April 26, 1986, Kostin and two other photographers flew over the nuclear power plant in a helicopter. Igor Kostin / Ігор Костін. 2,760 likes. Igor Fedorovich Kostin / Костін Ігор Федорович (1936-2015) was one of the five ph History 24.6.2015 4min read. A press photographer, who took pictures of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster and Pripyat during early days after plant explosion, Igor Kostin captured haunting images showing the true scale of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. The black and white shots revealed the truth behind the tragedy Soviets were trying to cover up. Igor Fedorovich Kostin (27 December 1936 - 9 June 2015) was one of the five photographers in the world to take pictures of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster near Pripyat in Ukraine, on 26 April 1986. He was working for Novosti Press Agency (APN) as a photographer in Kiev, Ukraine, when he represented Novosti to cover the nuclear accident in Chernobyl. |deu| odx| tfy| kye| hdv| akc| ibq| gxa| xaz| lxe| nmt| suf| rrn| vhd| woc| ukg| plt| xgw| fkb| fho| xqi| unc| jsj| pxt| dyh| koq| rjl| buq| ytu| xst| eip| kgv| pzw| qaf| pcj| ils| lon| pvd| nlr| ihk| lxv| wvz| rue| sve| gpp| xcl| wru| ckt| dcq| crt|