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Alexander Vadimovich Zemlianichenko (russian: link=no, Александр Вадимович Земляниченко; born 7 May 1950) is a Russian
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, two times
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winner.


Biography

Zemlianichenko was born on 7 May 1950, in Saratov, Russian SFSR, to a professional photojournalist. He became interested in photography during the school years, being a student he started working at ''Zarya Molodyozhi'' (). In 1974, Zemlianichenko graduated from the Saratov State Technical University with a degree in engineering. In the 1980s, he moved to Moscow and started working for the ', later contributed to many other publications. Since 1990 he has been working for the
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. He has travelled extensively, covering news stories throughout the former
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, the Middle East, Europe, and the United States, during the
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and the
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. He was one of five AP photographers who won the 1992
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for photos of the
Soviet coup attempt of 1991 The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national ...
. He also was a finalist in the 1995
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competition for his photographs of the war in
Chechnya Chechnya ( rus, Чечня́, Chechnyá, p=tɕɪtɕˈnʲa; ce, Нохчийчоь, Noxçiyçö), officially the Chechen Republic,; ce, Нохчийн Республика, Noxçiyn Respublika is a republic of Russia. It is situated in the ...
, Russia. Zemlianichenko received his second
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in 1997 for a photo of Russian President
Boris Yeltsin Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin ( rus, Борис Николаевич Ельцин, p=bɐˈrʲis nʲɪkɐˈla(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ ˈjelʲtsɨn, a=Ru-Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin.ogg; 1 February 1931 – 23 April 2007) was a Soviet and Russian politician wh ...
dancing at a rock concert. The same photo won a World Press Photo award in 1996 (3rd prize). In 1998 he was made the chief photographer of the Moscow
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. He was later invited to be a jury member at World Press Photo. Member of the
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. In 2018 he received the "Honored Journalist of the Russian Federation" award.


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