Biography of Vladimir Musaelana

About the author Vladimir Musaelian was born in Moscow. At the end of the school, he worked as a locksmith at the aviation plant. He was fond of photography since childhood. The father brought from the front the amateur camera of the company "Zeis". In the end, she brought the photographer to TASS photographer, where he was enrolled in work in the year.

According to Tassovo legend, one of the masters of Soviet photography Nikolai Kuzovkin once saw one photograph published in the magazine taken by the electrical engineer Volodya Musalyan, and offered him the place of the full-time correspondent of TASS photo chronicle. Vladimir Musaelyan graduated with honors from a two -year lecture at a photo report and the Institute of Journalistic Mastery at the Moscow Organization of the Union of Journalists of the USSR.

Since the year, Vladimir Musaelian has been engaged in the space theme, he was ready to hang around on Baikonur or in a star town from morning to night. Being a photojournalist TASS, Vladimir Musaelian drove the entire Soviet Union along and across with the camera, drifted on an ice floe at the geographical point of the North Pole, exhausted from the heat in the Kushka, removing our border guards on the border with Afghanistan.

He admired the beauties of the Far East, photographed the landing of the Marine Corps in Baltiysk, twice crossed the equator. But fate ordered that he became one of the most famous photographers of Russia in the twentieth century, being a personal photographer of L. Brezhnev, he understood that I would not just fix the moments of his life, but this is necessary for the case, for history, for himself.

He treated photographing reverently, responsibly, willy-nilly realizing the historical significance of a seemingly ordinary household work. In addition, which is very important, and in this as a professional I was lucky, Leonid Ilyich was an impressive, beautiful person. When he went to the rostrum, in his rare photogenic type, the sovereign male became visible, ”says Vladimir Musaelian.

Vladimir Musaleyan was awarded two orders of the Red Banner of Labor, the Order of Honor - "For great contribution to the development of domestic media and many years of fruitful activity." He is the holder of four World Press Foto, Golden Eye Awards year. Selected exhibitions "Masters of the Soviet photojournalism", Photovisa, Krasnodar Soviet photo, center of photography named after Golden book of the Russian Museum ”, State Russian Museum, St.

Petersburg Soviet photography x, center of photography named after