Markov-Grinberg, Mark Borisovich (November 7, 1907, Rostov-on-Don — 2006, Moscow), a well-known Soviet photographer, photo artist and photo correspondent of the TASS news agency. From 1925 on a photo correspondent for the Rostov-based Sovetsky Yug (Soviet South) newspaper and free-lance correspondent for the Ogonyok magazine. After moving to Moscow in 1926, he worked for the Smena magazine and in 1938 was invited to join the Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS). The SSSR na Stroike magazine published his photos.
From the first days of the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945) he was on the battlefield as a rank-and-file soldier, and from 1943 on as a photo correspondent of the Slovo Boitsa (Fighter’s Word) newspaper. After the war he served as a photo correspondent in the rank of a captain at the Krasnoarmeiskaya Illyustrirovannaya Gazeta (Red Army Illustrated Gazette).
In the 1950s he worked as a photographer at the Soviet Economic Achievements Exhibition Publishers and at the Klub i Khudozhestvennaya Samodeyatelnost (Community Center and Amateur Theatricals) magazine.
Markov-Grinberg contributed to many photo exhibitions at home and abroad, his photographs shown in Australia, Germany, France, Britain, Italy, the Netherlands, Denmark, Portugal, Yugoslavia, Singapore, Hungary, Romania, Poland and other countries. Honorary member of the Russian Photo Artists Union.
