Kenan Kutub-zade

Kenan Abdureimovich Kutub-zade (Russian: Кенан Абдуреимович Кутуб-заде; 13 August 1906 – 22 February 1981) was a Crimean Tatar camera operator and war correspondent in the Red Army during World War II.

After the German invasion of the Soviet Union, he was deployed to the front in 1942 as a cameraman in the political department on the 1st Ukrainian Front, seeing combat in a variety of battles, including the Bukrinsky, Kiev, Zhytomyr-Berdichev, Korsun-Shevchenkovsky, Poland, and Berlin operations.

In February 1945 he and his colleagues, including Aleksandr Vorontsov, Mikhail Oshurkov, and Nikolai Bykov entered Auschwitz and filmed what they saw.

[4][5] After the war he continued to film throughout the Soviet Union, being able to travel throughout the country since he was able to avoid being designated as a "special settler".

He lived in Riga and then Central Asia before eventually settling in Rostov, where he trained many other camera operators.