Petrusov, Georgy Grigorievich (1903, Rostov-on-Don — 1971, Moscow), a bright star in the galaxy of Soviet photographers of the 1920s and 1930s, who took up photography at 14. From 1924 on he collaborated as a photo reporter with the Metallist (Metal Worker) and Rabochii Khimik (Chemical Worker) magazines, the Trud and Pravda newspapers and the Soyuzfoto agency. In 1929-1930 he headed the photo desk at the Magnitogorsk Steel Works, until he joined the SSSR na Stroike magazine in 1931, for which he prepared materials for thematic issues. The Dneproges Dam is his most famous photograph.
During the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945), as a Sovinformburo and Izvestia photo correspondent, he documented combat operations at different fronts and met the end of the war in Berlin. In the postwar period he worked for the Izogiz Publishers and the Novosti Press Agency (APN), published several photo albums, including the Moscow-Berlin book, and exhibited extensively at home and abroad.
