Arkady Samoylovich Shaikhet (Russian: Аркадий Самойлович Шайхет; 12 September 1898 – 18 November 1959) was a prominent Soviet photojournalist and photographer.

[4] During the Second World War he created a series of images of the Battle of Stalingrad and later of liberation of Kiev, Ukraine.

[5] The Sovfoto agency, which from 1932 distributed Soviet photography in the West, holds examples of his photojournalism.

Born on August 28 (September 9), 1898 in Mykolajiv (now Ukraine) into a poor Jewish family: his father sold draft beer, his mother ran a small sewing workshop.

He was unable to enter the gymnasium due to the educational qualifications for his father that were formed in those years, so he began working as a mechanic’s assistant at the Nikolaev Shipyard.