Rank: Red army soldier. Branch of military: Air Forces (except naval aviation), Coast Guards, the troops of the NKVD, Border Guards. Division: 99th rifle division (1st formation). Born on 29 (17) 05.1916 in Yaroslavl. Alexey Nikolaevich Kuvyrkin - photographer of the Association "Yaroblfoto", honorary citizen of Yaroslavl in the 20th century, excellent service life, master of the highest class. He was the first photographer of the region to be awarded this high and honorary title. He started to study photography as a child, in the photo club named after the III international. He built his first camera with his own hands from plywood and a magnifying glass based on diagrams from the newspaper Pionerskaya Pravda when he was ten years old. The Soviet industry did not produce them yet, and it was not affordable to buy imported ones. At the age of 14, Alyosha Kuvyrkin was considered so experienced that he was accepted to work in a company serving the drama theater named after F. G. Volkov. In 1937, Alexey Kuvyrkin was drafted into the Soviet Army. He served in the 297th rifle regiment from October 1937 to June 1940. And in the army, he never parted with a camera. The camera was his faithful friend during the training courses of political instructors, which he took from June 1940 to October 1940. He was discharged in the reserve in October 1940 And on June 22, 1941 was mobilized by the Przemysl RVC of the Stanislavsky region. The War for him did not start on the first day – in the first minute of it. From 22.06.1941 to July 1941 he served in the 1st rifle regiment as a Deputy commander of a rifle company, from July 1941 to August 1941 in the political Department of the 99th rifle division as an instructor. He was captured and released in 1945. August 23-September 3, 1945 he was in the 232 verification and filtration point of the NKVD of the USSR in Zygon, Germany. Ended service in the army two and a half years after Victory Day. Travel documents were already issued to Yaroslavl, as he was urgently called to the authorities:- "We can't give orders, but we ask you to understand that it is very necessary to perform a responsible task. In Your specialty. "The Nuremberg trials, the trials of German war criminals, were approaching. It was necessary to present evidence of their atrocities. Alexey Kuvyrkin traveled around Germany, shooting terrible pictures in Sachsenhausen, huge boxes full of gold teeth knocked out of prisoners. He shot Hitler's bunker in Berlin and the funnel where the Fuhrer's remains were found (later the DEF film Studio used these images in a special film). In the post-war years, the main theme of Alexey Kuvyrkin's photographs was architecture. Alexey Nikolaevich collaborated with the restoration workshop. During the Soviet years, many books were illustrated with his photographs. This is a lot of guidebooks, album-monograph "Frescoes of Yaroslavl", collections "Monuments of the Volga region", "Palekh miracle". And for the illustrations to the book "Stone tales", their author was awarded a diploma of the all-Russian exhibition of book art. His photographs of historical and cultural monuments in the last century were known to each specialist, they were considered a model, a standard among professionals. Alexey Nikolaevich Kuvyrkin during his career brought up several dozen followers, who also later became masters of their craft. For his contribution to the development of photography. Kuvyrkin was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor.