"TASS is authorized to show" - a unique photo exhibition was opened in the Moscow Manege

A unique exhibition "Main Staff: TASS opens photo archives" was opened on Tuesday in the Moscow Manezh. On it - about a thousand photos, reflecting the landmark events of the XX century through the eyes of photo correspondents of the agency.

General Director of TASS Sergey Mikhailov, opening the exhibition, noted that the agency's photo archive is the property of Russia, and in three years a large-scale work on digitizing its part was carried out. The exhibition "Chief Cadres", he stressed, will allow guests to see rare, never published photographs capturing the history of the USSR and modern Russia.

"Looking at these photos, the sources of our amazing victories are becoming clear, which have always amazed and frightened the enemies, the sources of our creativity, the sources of discoveries," Mikhailov said.

Dozens of stands are divided into thematic sections, hundreds of photographs envelop visitors with shrouded time. Athletes, artists, scientists, doctors, politicians - all combine in a kaleidoscope of individuals and events. In the photographs of TASS photographers, time has stopped: the guests are watching the charming Alexei Batalov, the beautiful Vera Glagoleva, the inimitable Arkady Raikin. The pictures make you stop, feel the breathing of memory, remember your impressions from the first acquaintance with the films, where your favorite actors played.

In the labyrinths of the stands, the scene of the play "Hamlet" staged by the Theater on Taganka was concealed. Thanks to the shot made in 1971, the guests of the exhibition can see Alexander Porokhovshchikov as Claudius, Vladimir Vysotsky, playing Hamlet, and Alla Demidova as Gertrude.
Photographer Vyacheslav Un Da-Sin caught the camera clown Oleg Popov in the camera at the Moscow Circus. The merry fellow walks along a tight rope with a basin on his head, unrolling the ring on his palm, and in the other hand holds an umbrella.

Here you can see a historical shot of Vladimir Musaelyan and Eduard Pesov, made in 1985 at a funeral ceremony in the Kremlin. It depicts British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, expressing her condolences to Mikhail Gorbachev at the farewell ceremony with Konstantin Chernenko. Another shot of Musaelyan and Valentin Sobolev was made in 1973. In the photo, General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Leonid Brezhnev and US President Richard Nixon respond to greetings from the balcony of the White House during Brezhnev's visit to the United States.

"The fact that TASS raised its archives is a huge deal," said Olga Sviblova, director of the Moscow House of Photography, "We do not know anyone, especially young people, today we have forgotten how to read books. manipulate, and the photos speak for themselves, they express the mood, atmosphere and aura of time.

to November 24, 2017