10 best covers of "Man of the Year" by Time magazine

• 10 best covers of "Man of the Year" by the magazine Time The

Traditionally, Time magazine calls in the last December issue of "Man of the Year". Nomination awarded since 1927, when it was awarded the title of pilot Charles Lindbergh, the first time in the history alone has flown the Atlantic. Man of the Year picks exclusively executive editor. Over the years, Man of the Year became Franklin Roosevelt, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, George Bush, US soldiers, as well as an Internet user. In 2007 Person of the Year is Vladimir Putin.

"Man of the Year" by Time magazine in this time was a collective image of fighters against Ebola, according to the website edition. Due to the fact that the "man of the year" was not one man, a magazine produced several cover versions, each of which shows the doctors, nurses and volunteers who participated in the fight against Ebola, and became well-known thanks to the media.

They included, in particular, doctors Kent Brantley and Jerry Brown, a nurse Salom Karva, volunteer organization "Doctors without Borders" Ella Watson-Stryker. The short-list "Man of the Year" title included Russian President Vladimir Putin, the leader of Iraqi Kurdistan, Massoud Barzani, Alibaba founder Jack Ma and protesters from Ferguson. We present you a selection of the ten most memorable cover art depicting "Man of the Year" by the magazine Time.

1935 Haile Selassie I. The first winner of the monarch; first African.

in 1939, Joseph Stalin. First the Georgians, the first representative of the Soviet Union, Russia, the first communist.

in 1957, Nikita Khrushchev. First Russian.

1963 Martin Luther King. The first African American.

1982 PC. "Machine of the Year"; the first winner - an inanimate object.

1988 Earth (in danger). "Planet of the Year"; abstract concept.

1999 Albert Einstein. "Man of the Century"; the first person selected posthumously.

2007 Vladimir Putin. The first representative of post-Soviet Russia.

2010 Mark Zuckerberg. Designer and founder of the world's largest social network - Facebook website.

2012 Barack Obama has selected a second time.