Boris Kudoyarov file photo [25840]

Boris Kudoyarov

SurnameKudoyarov
Given NameBoris
CountryUzbekistan
CategoryPhotography
GenderMale

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ww2dbaseBoris Pavlovich Kudoyarov was born in Tashkent, Russian Turkestan, Russian Empire (now Uzbekistan) in 1898. After some time working as a policeman, he served in the Red Army between 1918 and 1920. He published his first photographs in 1924. During the war, as a photographer for the publication Komsomolskaya Pravda, he documented life in besieged Leningrad, Russia. He would follow Soviet troops as they moved into southern Finland, Estonia, and Latvia. He retired in 1949. He passed away in Moscow, Russia in 1973 and was buried at the Vagankovsky cemetery.

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Last Major Revision: Aug 2016

Photographs Taken by Boris Kudoyarov

Soviet sailors marching on Nevsky Prospect, Leningrad, Russia, 1 Oct 1941Civilians fetching water from a shell hole on Nevsky Prospect near Ostrovsky Square, Leningrad, Russia, 1 Dec 1941; note Great Gostiny Dvor department store at left edge of photographSoviet troops on Moskovsky Prospekt, Leningrad, Russia, 7 Dec 1941Soviet 85 mm M1939 (52-K) anti-aircraft guns at the Field of Mars, Leningrad, Russia, 1 Mar 1942
See all 21 photographs by Boris Kudoyarov



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