Fridlyand Semyon Osipovich

In 1922 he graduated from seven-year school. From 1925, he worked for the Ogonyok magazine, which at that time was headed by his cousin, the famous Soviet journalist and writer Mikhail Koltsov, first as an assistant to a photo reporter, and then as a photojournalist. In 1930 he moved to the Union photo agency (later Soyuzfoto), where he worked until 1932 as a photo reporter, editor and head of the mass department. In 1932 he graduated from the cinematography department of the State Institute of Cinematography. Since 1932 he worked in the magazine “USSR on Construction”. Since 1933, he has been a photojournalist for the central party daily newspaper Pravda. At the end of the 1930s - Chairman of the Association of Moscow Photo Reporters. During the Great Patriotic War, he was a photojournalist for the Sovinformburo. In the 1950s - head of the photography department of the Ogonyok magazine. He is a cousin of two siblings - the writer Mikhail Koltsov and the famous Soviet cartoonist Boris Efimov.