United Nations Award, Individual awards
Leonid Evseevich Yakutin
Union of Journalists of the USSR
Union of Journalists of the USSR
01 January, 1979
On the land of Vietnam.
Leonid Evseevich Yakutin
Leonid Yakutin (1940-2009) worked as a miner before becoming a photojournalist during his time in the navy. After graduating in journalism at Lvov Higher Military-Political Acade...
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