[ Photographs ] Kubeyev, Nikolai Female athlete. Silver print, 8 x 5 25 inches,, with the photographer's handstamp on verso and a lengthy handwritten caption attached to verso. 1934 E1400-1800 Nikolai Kubeyev 1910-1956 moved to Moscow in 1925, and

[ Photographs ] Kubeyev, Nikolai Female athlete. Silver print, 8 x 5 25 inches,, with the photographer's handstamp on verso and a lengthy handwritten caption attached to verso. 1934 E1400-1800 Nikolai Kubeyev 1910-1956 moved to Moscow in 1925, and soon after joined the staff of "Soviet Photo," where his photographs appeared regularly. his work as a photo-reporter was also used in the Soviet newspaper "Pravda " A talented photographer, his images were featured in the First All-Union Exhibition of Photographic Art in 193 7 During the war he became a correspondent and volunteered to move to the front, where he was seriously wounded.