Photographer Valery Levitin died suddenly in Moscow

The famous photographer Valery Levitin, who collaborated with many media outlets and in recent years worked for the RIA Novosti agency, died suddenly. In December 2013, he was supposed to turn 53 years old.

(Total 15 photos)

1. Valery Levitin at the opening of the solo exhibition "Full Version" at the Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography.

Valery Yulievich Levitin was born on December 6, 1960 in Moscow. In elementary school, he began to go to the photo club at the House of Pioneers.

He studied at schools 175 and 109. In 1983 he graduated from the V.V. Kuibyshev.

Until the end of 1986, he worked in the SU-13 (construction department) of the Mosstroy-2 trust as a foreman.

Since 1987, he worked on a contract basis in the magazine "64-Chess Review" of the publishing house "Soviet Sport". Collaborated with the Megapolis-Express newspaper, the Stolitsa magazine, the Sobesednik newspaper and Express-gazeta. From 2001 to 2011, he worked for the Kommersant newspaper.

Since October 10, 2011 he has been a photojournalist at the RIA Novosti agency.

2. President of the All-Russian Federation of Rhythmic Gymnastics Irina Viner at the XIV annual charity Winter Ball (Winter Ball 2011) at the Ritz-Carlton Moscow.

3. Singer Larisa Dolina at the opening of French actor Vincent Perez's photo exhibition "From Vladivostok to Paris" at the RuArts Gallery.

4. President of the Rosgosstrakh group of companies Danila Khachaturov with his wife, fashion designer Ulyana Sergienko, during the Warm Reception charity auction of the Naked Heart Foundation at the Barvikha Luxury Village Concert Hall.

5. TV and radio host Mikhail Dovzhenko and producer of ORKF Kinotavr Polina Zueva at the after-party of the New Wave 2012 international competition for young performers in Jurmala.

6. Countess Marta Marzotto and wife of Deputy of the Russian State Duma Andrey Skoch Elena Likhach (left to right) at the birthday party of the founder and president of the De Grisogono jewelry house Fawaz Gruosi at the Billionaire Club in Sardinia.

7. Goga Ashkenazi and Claudia Galanti (left to right) at the celebration of the birthday of the founder and president of the jewelry house De Grisogono Fawaz Gruosi at the Billionaire Club in Sardinia.

8. Andrey Gnatyuk, president of the IMA Group holding, during the ETRO retrospective show "10 Years in Russia" at the Danilovsky market in Moscow (reframed).

9. Leader of the Liberal Democratic Party, member of the State Duma Defense Committee Vladimir Zhirinovsky (left) and singer Alexander Buinov in Gostiny Dvor at a reception marking the start of RBC's new business year.

10. Anzhelika Khan (right), wife of TNK-BP Executive Director Herman Khan, with her daughter Eva in the Column Hall of the House of the Unions, where the Tatler Debutante Ball 2012 is being held.

11. Writer-satirist Mikhail Zadornov and singer Sati Kazanova during the premiere of the video for the song "Fool" in Chaikhona No. 1 in Moscow.

12. Designer Igor Gulyaev during the opening ceremony of the IGOR GULYAEV boutique in the Nikolskaya Plaza shopping center in Moscow.

13. Horse racing for the prize of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.

14. Visitors at the painting "Portrait of Prince Alexander Mikhailovich Beloselsky and his family" (by Johann Christian Klengel 1790) at the Masterpieces exhibition of the Sotheby's auction house in the Russian Academy of Arts.

15. Press Secretary of the Italian Embassy in Moscow Darya Klimenko, manager of the Microsoft partner training program Darya Gushchina and Russian Pioneer magazine CEO Alexander Zilbert (from left to right) at the celebration of the twentieth anniversary of the Li-Lu showroom in the Berg mansion in Moscow.