Shaikhet Arkady Samoilovich

August 30 (September 12), 1898, Nikolaev (Ukraine) - November 18, 1959, Moscow

Photographer

born in a family of small traders and milliner. He graduated four classes of primary school. In 1916-1922 worked as an assistant locksmith at Nicholas shipyard. After working for four years, was qualified as a fitter at hand.

During the Civil War he served in the Red Army's brass band.

the summer of 1920 arrived in Moscow, got a job as a retoucher in a private photo studio "Rembrandt" on Sretenke, where he received the first professional skills. Started shooting. The works of young photographers met the head ROST Dmitry Bazulev. He was advised to try and force in photojournalism.

in 1924 published his first work in "Working paper, then in the magazine" Krasnaya Niva. Became photojournalist of the weekly Moscow proletarian.

in 1925 met with the chief editor of the magazine Ogonyok Mikhail Koltsov, and began to continuously cooperate with the magazine. Published his most famous photograph "Ilyich's lamp". Was adopted on a permanent job in Ogonyok (1926), participated in the creation of the magazine "proletarian image".

In 1928 participated in the exhibition "The Soviet photography for 10 years and was awarded the diploma of I degree. Since 1930 continuously worked with the magazine "USSR in Construction", whose editor was Maxim Gorky.

In 1931, commissioned by the German magazine AIZsovmestno with M. Alpert and S. Tulesom removed staging a photo "24 hours in the life of Filippov, which won international acclaim. He was one of the organizers of ROPF (Revolutionary Association of Proletarian Photographers Russian). Served with criticism of "October».

Since 1934 he worked in the magazines "USSR in Construction", "On the construction of the MTS and state farms, shooting for various publications Journal-newspaper association.

In 1936-1938 actively participated in several exhibitions in London, Zagreb, and others who conducted the All-Union Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries (VOKS), as well as in the First All-Union Exhibition photography (1938, Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev), where I received a diploma degree. Photographs of members of the government, members of the expedition on board the Chelyuskin, writers, Maxim Gorky, S. Marshak, K. Chukovsky, aviatrix B. Grizodubova and M. Raskovol architect B. Iofan , chess M. Botvinnik, A. miner Stakhanov and others. Participated in the collective journey of Soviet photographers on the channel Moscow - Volga (1937).

In 1938, retired from Ogonyok, by the end of that year was passed in "an illustrated newspaper».

During the Great Patriotic War in 1941-1945, with the rank of captain worked a special correspondent of the newspaper "Frontal illustration, as well as other military publications. All four years spent in the mission on many fronts, was in Moscow and Moscow region, Kharkov, Voronezh, Orel, Stalingrad, Kiev, the Baltic States, Poland and Germany. He was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, and one of the few, the Order of the Red Banner for deeds committed in the battles of Konigsberg: together with the driver of the drafting machine, they were taken from the battlefield fifteen seriously wounded soldiers.

In 1946 he was discharged from the army for health reasons. He worked in the magazine Ogonyok, participated in various periodicals, was engaged in illustrating books, began working with color photography, systematized its archive. Participated at the photo "Focus" (1946, Netherlands), in Moscow exhibition "The Great Patriotic War" (1948), in the Exhibition of Art Photography (1955), Exhibition of Works by photojournalists in Moscow (1956), the All-Union exhibition "Photography of the USSR 40 years" ( 1958).

Photos by Shaikhet stored in the Union of Photographers of Russia, in the meeting of the Multimedia Complex of Actual Arts (museum "Moscow House of Photography), Alex Lachman Gallery (Cologne), Museum Ludwig (Cologne), in private collections.

A. Shaykhet buried in the Armenian cemetery in Moscow.