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Yevgeny Khaldei (23 March [O.S. 10 March] 1917 –6 October 1997) was a Red Army photographer, best known for his World War II photograph of a Soviet soldier Raising a flag over the Reichstag, in Berlin, capital of the vanquished Nazi Germany (1933–45).

Life

Khaldei was born in a Jewish family in Yuzovka (now Donetsk, Ukraine) and was obsessed with photography since childhood, having built his first childhood camera with his grandmother's eyeglasses. He started working with the Soviet press agency TASS at the age of nineteen as a photographer.

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Khaldei was also witness to several pivotal moments in history and is particularly reputed for his photographs during World War II and the Nuremberg Trials. Khaldei worked with the TASS until 1949, when he was fired due to the growing anti-semitism by the Soviet state.

For the next ten years, he worked as a private freelance photographer, focusing on scenes from everyday life. In 1959, he got a job again at th