News Feature, 3rd prize
Andrei Soloviev
ITAR-TASS
ITAR-TASS
01 December, 1988
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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