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Arkady Samoylovich Shaikhet (; 12 September 1898 18 November 1959) was a prominent USSR photojournalist and photographer.Mrazkova, Daniela and Remes, Vladimir "Early Soviet Photographers." Museum of Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, 1982, In the history of Soviet photography, Shaikhet is known for a type of journalistic photography called "artistic reportage,"Shudakov, Grigory. "Pioneers of Soviet Photography." Thames and Hudson, London, 1983, page 20, and for photographs of industrialization in the 1920s and 1930s.
His first photographs were published in 1923 and in 1924 he joined the staff of the national magazine Ogonyok. His images were used for their covers from the magazine's first issue. Shaikhet was one of the founders (together with journalist Mikhail Koltsov) of Soviet Photo in 1926. Starting in 1930 he contributed to USSR in Construction, another Soviet journal."Arkady Shaikhet" Art Rodnik, Moscow, 2000,
During the Second World War he created a series of images of the Battle of Stalingrad and later of liberation of Kiev, Ukraine.Shneer, David. "Through Soviet Jewish eyes. Photography, War, and the Holocaust." Rutgers University Press, 2011, pages 112, 114, 149,
The Sovfoto agency, which from 1932 distributed Soviet photography in the West, holds examples of his photojournalism.
Graduated from 4th grade of primary school. 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.
During the Civil War he served in the Red Army in a Concert band. During his service he suffered from severe typhus with heart complications.
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