General News, 3rd prize
Andrei Soloviev
ITAR-TASS
ITAR-TASS
01 December, 1988
Survivors reach out for their food rations. Intense grief of bereaved Armenians after the earthquake in early December devastated the city of Leninakan. Tens of thousands lost their lives in the disaster.
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