Dmitri Baltermants (Russian: Дмитрий Николаевич Бальтерманц, May 13, 1912 – 1990) was a prominent Soviet photojournalist.
He was born in Warsaw, Poland. His father served in the Imperial Russian Army and was killed in the First World War. Baltermants graduated from the Moscow State University to become a math teacher in a Military Academy, but fell in love with photography and began a career in the field of photojournalism in 1939.[1] He was an official Kremlin photographer, worked for the dailyIzvestia and was picture editor of the popular magazine Ogonyok. During World War II, Baltermants covered the battle of Stalingrad, and the battles of the Red Army in Russia and Ukraine. He was twice wounded. ...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitri_Baltermants
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