Abramochkin started to work as a photojournalist at 21 , in the office of " Mosstroy " ( Main department of building and planning in Moscow ) with the primary job of photographing plans . He got a chance to try himself in photography in 1957 when he was offered the position of official photographer of the World Festival of Youth and Students in Moscow . He also took photos of '' Komsomolskiy Prospekt '' for " Mosstroy " and those photos were published by '' Soviet Weekly '' , the Soviet newspaper for capitalist countries . Abramochkin worked for '' Soviet Weekly '' for forty years . In 1961 he started to work as a photographer of the news agency Novosti . Yuri Abramochkin is one of 15 Russian photojournalists included in the encyclopedia '' Contemporary Photographers '' , published by St. James Press in 1995
World Festival of Youth and Students
6th World Festival of Youth and Students
Yuriy Abramochkin