Zirakh's chronicle

To Republic of Bashkortostan Apollony Aleksandrovich Zirakh, the native Buzuluk shoot the movie about photographer, imprinted for descendants old Ufa, the employee of offices of the Samara and Buzuluksky zemstvoes, arrived to Ufa in 1896. Worked 22 years in insurance department of a territorial justice. In the spring of 1908 he removes the first photosketches of a city landscape. So its photochronicle Ufa began. Apollony Zirakh made some thousands of pictures of the city which we can learn today how our native Ufa looked, what people lived in it. It became the first photographer in the history of our capital which began purposefully...