The photos are on
display in Atrium, the biggest exhibition hall of the Yeltsin Center in
Yekaterinburg
YEKATERINBURG, May
20. /TASS/. ‘The Main Shots’ exhibition of digitalized pictures from the TASS
photo archives, first showcased in Moscow late last year, opened in the Urals
city of Yekaterinburg on Saturday night, as part of the Night in the Museum
event.
"It took us
about two years, or two years and six months, to convert 860,000 photos into
the digital format," TASS Director General Sergei Mikhailov said during
the opening ceremony. "Those precious works have an almost unlimited life
span now, and we are going to continue this effort, because this is important
not just for TASS, but for the entire country as well."
The exhibition
features more than a thousand of historical and hundreds of contemporary photos
made by more than 250 photographers from the period of early 20th century and
until the present day.
The photos are on
display in Atrium, the biggest exhibition hall of the Yeltsin Center in
Yekaterinburg. The exhibition will stay in Yekaterinburg until June 12.
‘The Main Shots’
premiered at Moscow’s Manezh exhibition center on November 1-24, 2017, and was
attended by more than 60,000 visitors.
Over the past three
years, TASS has transferred into digital form and given description to almost
860,000 pictures made by the press photographers who worked for the agency
during various periods of history.
The visitors can see
political leaders of the USSR and other nations, actors, writers, physicians,
engineers, teachers and the people of numerous other trades, who lived in the
20th century and contributed to its history.
Source: ITAR-TASS
20-05-2018
