Igor Fedorovich  Igor Fedorovich  Stravinsky, Igor Fedorovich,
1882-1971, Russian-American composer. Considered by many the
greatest and most versatile composer of the 20th cent.,
Stravinsky helped to revolutionize modern music.          Igor
Fedorovich Kostin (born 27 December 1936 in Bessarabia, Greater
Romania) was the only photographer in the world to take pictures
of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster near Pripyat in Ukraine, on 26
April 1986 - the day of the worst nuclear accident in history.
He was working for Novosti Press Agency (APN) as a photographer
in Kiev, Ukraine, when he represented Novosti to cover the
nuclear accident in Chernobyl. Kostin’s aerial view of the
Chernobyl nuclear power plant was widely published around the
world, showing the extent of the devastation, and triggering
fear throughout the world of radioactivity contamination the
accident caused, when the Soviet media was working to censor
information regarding the accident, releasing limited
information regarding the accident on 28 Ap