Abramochkin and Gagarin
Posted 01-04-2011 at 03:56 by Вадим Алексеев
my interview, http://www.sovsekretno.ru/magazines/article/2764
Yuri Gagarin became an icon twentieth century, it was dismantled, many photographers, but the first who took it at home, without form, became photojournalist APN Yuri Abramochkin. Yuri V. - classic Soviet reportage, it always feels like the events will unfold, and is able to predict interesting to take a moment beforehand. His favorite method - do not open the camera immediately, and to talk with the hero and take it off naturally. Abramochkin traveled halfway around the world, took almost all the leaders, actors, and the miners, but their first meeting with Gagarin recalls with great warmth. This photo essay offers a huge monograph Yuri Abramochkin coming out in Moscow in April.
- April 3, 1961 in Moscow, opened the "Agency" Novosti ", the most advanced media of Soviet times, April 12, the world learned about the flight of the first man in space and was a big boom, and a month later, the morning of May 5, I arrived at work, in Zhdanov, now Rozhdestvenka. At the entrance to fotootdel, while still small, I was stopped by one of our captains, named Belokon, and asked: "What are you doing now? "Nothing." "Is not going anywhere, maybe you have to quickly take off" - which, while not particularly spread. "Apparatus with me?". "With you!". "Good?". "What is, the Soviet". Since I was a "Ikofleks", which I bought for the occasion by selling to the commission the American coat, and "Sharp". And two hours later did say immediately depart.
soon met with his colleagues: there were two correspondents of "Truth" - a very famous writer Sergei Borzenko and Head of the Military Department Danilov, Pavel Barashev of "Komsomolskaya Pravda", a very talented man who died early, and Gregory of "Red Star" . Was supposed to fly Vasili Peskov, Gagarin flew with more of the Kuibyshev, but he could not. We were put in Marshal car and took the airfield, where already waiting for IL-14 "Air Marshal Vershinin. Flew for five hours and only in the air have learned that we fly to Sochi to Gagarin. When they announced I was a little stunned by the importance of the job - I'm accidentally turned up by the arm, and as had already filmed once Khrushchev, and I took it.
In Sochi, planted in an open car, and drove him to a sanatorium CPSU Central Committee, where people were walking around in tracksuits - then we learned that this future astronauts. But we had a resolution of the Central Committee to interview only the Gagarin and the second man, Titov. Gagarin showed us a glimpse, with him there conducted the study, we have removed, and the film immediately took security officers. We murmur, passed by a man in shirt: "Have you rasshumelis, people here can not go!". And he ordered protection: "Films give, they will themselves be responsible for their head! And in Moscow will understand that you can print that you can not. " And he began to speak with Gagarin and Titov. It turned out it was Sergei Korolev, who in the face when no one knew.
newspapermen, who were with me, took my interview and went flying, and I was asked to stay one more day. Even then I knew that we must not relax, and always walked with the apparatus. Gagarin lived in the country Vasily Stalin. In the morning I think, what would I still be removed, except for a portrait that was made yesterday, along with colleagues? Go out and see Gagarin, sitting on a bench in front of me. He recognized me and said: "Come on, shoot faster, until the guards do not come!". And I instantly took a few pictures, he still jumped in front of me, when there was a guard with the doctor: "Where is your permit?". And I replied: "We are waiting for you! That you give us permission, we shall do. " Gagarin was silent and smiling. And I am glad that something I've already shot.
They were allowed, he jumped back a bit, played tennis with a doctor and we agreed with the protection that I will be able to shoot him and his wife Valentina. This afternoon I spent quite active, he shot them with his wife on the background scenery of Sochi. And soon came Postnikov sculptor sculpt his first portrait. I asked the attendant to get me to Gagarin, near the attachment is behind him "ZIS-110. Face he was bandaged, I do not know from what, something jumped up, I guess. In another car he had posed to me later, then gave all the astronauts on the Volga. The entire report will be fully published in my book.
Actually it was a very nice person - to him it was easy to communicate, the smile never left his face. My question, "Yura, what do you see in the cosmos?" Gagarin said, "Yes, did not see anything!". He explained why: The capsule was round and small, he was sitting there in three perdition. Then I did not attach any importance to this, and recently went to the Space Museum to see what kind of thing: the meter on the meter, and two inside, he sat in it all twisted. He could not answer because of the secrecy - the time it was closed, Stalin had recently died, but I am inclined to think that he told the truth.
The next day I fled, trembling for unique films for which he is now responsible. On landing, passed in the first division, as was laid at the time. The films were returned to me by a miracle, many years later, the agency gave me something that did not go into business. It's amazing - the Soviet film "DS-2" according to the rules was to degrade, but no Gagarinskaya smile in place! By that time, were printed good shots, but I think that otsevny material I brought back a lot more interesting - there he is more free, live, unprogrammed. Then, when Gagarin went around the world, he always remained the same affordable, and when they met on television in Shabolovka, once recognized, and presented a photograph of a signature.
Once I really got into this business, then looked behind him. In early June, I went to Gzhatsk, he performed with a truck in front of people, watching a new house with his mother and father drank and was no longer any. I rented it and some cottages, parades. Later there were two, three cosmonauts Valentina Tereshkova, Nikolayev, and I asked the cosmos did not send me any more - I came, shooting, but released most uninteresting - everywhere the same type helmet and a close-up, no deviations from the perspective. And my first astronauts were Belka and Arrow - if television were not, and they were brought to the radio, where they have something to bark into the microphone - and leading them woof squeezes the air.
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Yuri Gagarin became an icon twentieth century, it was dismantled, many photographers, but the first who took it at home, without form, became photojournalist APN Yuri Abramochkin. Yuri V. - classic Soviet reportage, it always feels like the events will unfold, and is able to predict interesting to take a moment beforehand. His favorite method - do not open the camera immediately, and to talk with the hero and take it off naturally. Abramochkin traveled halfway around the world, took almost all the leaders, actors, and the miners, but their first meeting with Gagarin recalls with great warmth. This photo essay offers a huge monograph Yuri Abramochkin coming out in Moscow in April.
- April 3, 1961 in Moscow, opened the "Agency" Novosti ", the most advanced media of Soviet times, April 12, the world learned about the flight of the first man in space and was a big boom, and a month later, the morning of May 5, I arrived at work, in Zhdanov, now Rozhdestvenka. At the entrance to fotootdel, while still small, I was stopped by one of our captains, named Belokon, and asked: "What are you doing now? "Nothing." "Is not going anywhere, maybe you have to quickly take off" - which, while not particularly spread. "Apparatus with me?". "With you!". "Good?". "What is, the Soviet". Since I was a "Ikofleks", which I bought for the occasion by selling to the commission the American coat, and "Sharp". And two hours later did say immediately depart.
soon met with his colleagues: there were two correspondents of "Truth" - a very famous writer Sergei Borzenko and Head of the Military Department Danilov, Pavel Barashev of "Komsomolskaya Pravda", a very talented man who died early, and Gregory of "Red Star" . Was supposed to fly Vasili Peskov, Gagarin flew with more of the Kuibyshev, but he could not. We were put in Marshal car and took the airfield, where already waiting for IL-14 "Air Marshal Vershinin. Flew for five hours and only in the air have learned that we fly to Sochi to Gagarin. When they announced I was a little stunned by the importance of the job - I'm accidentally turned up by the arm, and as had already filmed once Khrushchev, and I took it.
In Sochi, planted in an open car, and drove him to a sanatorium CPSU Central Committee, where people were walking around in tracksuits - then we learned that this future astronauts. But we had a resolution of the Central Committee to interview only the Gagarin and the second man, Titov. Gagarin showed us a glimpse, with him there conducted the study, we have removed, and the film immediately took security officers. We murmur, passed by a man in shirt: "Have you rasshumelis, people here can not go!". And he ordered protection: "Films give, they will themselves be responsible for their head! And in Moscow will understand that you can print that you can not. " And he began to speak with Gagarin and Titov. It turned out it was Sergei Korolev, who in the face when no one knew.
newspapermen, who were with me, took my interview and went flying, and I was asked to stay one more day. Even then I knew that we must not relax, and always walked with the apparatus. Gagarin lived in the country Vasily Stalin. In the morning I think, what would I still be removed, except for a portrait that was made yesterday, along with colleagues? Go out and see Gagarin, sitting on a bench in front of me. He recognized me and said: "Come on, shoot faster, until the guards do not come!". And I instantly took a few pictures, he still jumped in front of me, when there was a guard with the doctor: "Where is your permit?". And I replied: "We are waiting for you! That you give us permission, we shall do. " Gagarin was silent and smiling. And I am glad that something I've already shot.
They were allowed, he jumped back a bit, played tennis with a doctor and we agreed with the protection that I will be able to shoot him and his wife Valentina. This afternoon I spent quite active, he shot them with his wife on the background scenery of Sochi. And soon came Postnikov sculptor sculpt his first portrait. I asked the attendant to get me to Gagarin, near the attachment is behind him "ZIS-110. Face he was bandaged, I do not know from what, something jumped up, I guess. In another car he had posed to me later, then gave all the astronauts on the Volga. The entire report will be fully published in my book.
Actually it was a very nice person - to him it was easy to communicate, the smile never left his face. My question, "Yura, what do you see in the cosmos?" Gagarin said, "Yes, did not see anything!". He explained why: The capsule was round and small, he was sitting there in three perdition. Then I did not attach any importance to this, and recently went to the Space Museum to see what kind of thing: the meter on the meter, and two inside, he sat in it all twisted. He could not answer because of the secrecy - the time it was closed, Stalin had recently died, but I am inclined to think that he told the truth.
The next day I fled, trembling for unique films for which he is now responsible. On landing, passed in the first division, as was laid at the time. The films were returned to me by a miracle, many years later, the agency gave me something that did not go into business. It's amazing - the Soviet film "DS-2" according to the rules was to degrade, but no Gagarinskaya smile in place! By that time, were printed good shots, but I think that otsevny material I brought back a lot more interesting - there he is more free, live, unprogrammed. Then, when Gagarin went around the world, he always remained the same affordable, and when they met on television in Shabolovka, once recognized, and presented a photograph of a signature.
Once I really got into this business, then looked behind him. In early June, I went to Gzhatsk, he performed with a truck in front of people, watching a new house with his mother and father drank and was no longer any. I rented it and some cottages, parades. Later there were two, three cosmonauts Valentina Tereshkova, Nikolayev, and I asked the cosmos did not send me any more - I came, shooting, but released most uninteresting - everywhere the same type helmet and a close-up, no deviations from the perspective. And my first astronauts were Belka and Arrow - if television were not, and they were brought to the radio, where they have something to bark into the microphone - and leading them woof squeezes the air.
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