Education
Soloviev studied at the Moscow Institute of Architecture but never graduated.
Soloviev studied at the Moscow Institute of Architecture but never graduated.
He was killed by sniper fire while covering the battle for Sukhumi in Abkhazian war. Instead, he became a photojournalist, joining the Itar-Telegraphic Agency of the USSR news agency in 1987. He also worked as a stringer for the Associated Press.
After the break-up of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics, Andrey Soloviev covered many armed conflicts, including in Nagorno-Karabakh, Transdniestria, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, South Ossetia.
He also filmed the aftermath of the 1988 earthquake in Armenia, the collapse of the regime of Nicolae Ceauşescu, and was in Iraq during the first Gulf War.