Boris Kavashkin, a photojournalist for TASS and the Novosti news agency, died on October 4 in his 82nd year. His archive includes work from Afghanistan, the Baikal–Amur railway construction and the final years of the Soviet Union.
Photojournalist Boris Kavashkin died on October 4 in his 82nd year. His son, Anton Kavashkin, told TASS that the photographer died of natural causes.
Born in Moscow on October 25, 1944, Kavashkin became interested in photography as a child. After military service, he worked at a classified military factory while continuing to take photographs. In 1967 he joined TASS as a photojournalist, later moved to the Novosti press agency and eventually returned to TASS.
He worked in photography for more than 60 years. His assignments included the war in Afghanistan, construction of the Baikal–Amur Mainline, events before the Soviet Union’s dissolution and the storming of the White House. His archive also documents life in Moscow and other Soviet cities, space and cultural subjects, and everyday scenes from the Soviet and post-Soviet eras.