Career
Abramochkin started to work as a photojournalist at 21, in the office of "Mosstroy" (Main department of building and planning in Moscow) with the primary job of photographing plans. He got a chance to try himself in photography in 1957 when he was offered the position of official photographer of the World Festival of Youth and Students in Moscow. He also took photos of Komsomolskiy Prospekt for "Mosstroy" and those photos were published by Soviet Weekly, the Soviet newspaper for capitalist countries.
Abramochkin worked for Soviet Weekly for forty years.
In 1961 he started to work as a photographer of the news agency Novosti. Yuri Abramochkin is one of 15 Russian photojournalists included in the encyclopedia Contemporary Photographers, published by Saint James Press in 1995.
Abramochkin worked with Soviet and world leaders, politicians and celebrities, making among others the photos of Nikita Khrushchev, Leonid Brezhnev, Mikhail Gorbachev, Boris Yeltsin, Charles de Gaulle, Willy Brandt, Francois Mitterrand, Richard Nixon, Urho Kekkonen, Jacques Chirac, Bill Clinton, Yuri Gagarin, Ronald Reagan, Valentina Tereshkova and Elizabeth World War II
Solo exhibitions
1970 - Photographs from the United States.S.R., City Museum, Sopron, Hungary
1972 - Yugoslavia
1974 - United States.S.R.: Country and People, Photo Artists" Salon, Belgrade
1976 - From the Photographer"s Album, House of Culture, Prague
1976 - Photographs from the United States.S.R., Exhibition Pavilion, West Berlin
1978 - Photographs from the United States.S.R., Soviet Cultural Centre, Damascus
1978 - Sowjetunion: Land und Leute im Foto, Majakowski Galerie, West Berlin
1979 - From the Photographer"s Album, Photo and Cine Club, Belgrade
1981 - India
1981 - Romania
1984 - Bulgaria
1988 - Yugoslavia
2001 - Moscow
2002 - France
2009 - Yuri Abramochkin - Photoessay. Brothers Lumière Moscow
Group exhibitions
1961: National Photo Exhibition, Manege Exhibition Hall, Moscow
1962: International Photo-Agency Exhibition, Prague
1964: WorldPress Photo, Amsterdam (and 1965-1969, 1975-1976, 1978)
1966: Interpress Photo "66, Manege Exhibition Hall, Moscow
1975: Fotosuit de Sovjet Unie, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
1976: Photographs from the United States.S.R., Trade Fair Hall, West Berlin
1979: Interpress Photo "79, Havana
1980: Sportas Ambassador of Peace, Manege Exhibition Hall, Moscow.