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Igor Kostin
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 9 years ago |
Date of birth | December 27,1936 |
Zodiac sign | Capricorn |
Born | Bessarabia |
Moldova | |
Date of died | June 9,2015 |
Died | Kyiv |
Ukraine | |
Spouse | Alla Kostina |
Awards | World Press Photo Award for Nature |
Books | Chernobyl: Confessions of a Reporter |
Chornobyl: confession of the reporter | |
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ID | 1182776 |
Igor Kostin Life story
Igor Fedorovich Kostin was one of the five photographers in the world to take pictures of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster near Pripyat in Ukraine, on 26 April 1986. He was working for Novosti Press Agency as a photographer in Kyiv, Ukraine, when he represented Novosti to cover the nuclear accident in Chernobyl.