PP 312 | Poster Plakat

Juegos Olímpicos, Moscú 1980

**Número de Cartel:** PP 312

**Información sobre el cartel:** On flags in English Russian and French: Friendship, Peace, Sport; Moscow won the bid for the 22nd Olympics in 1974. In the summer of 1980, the games were held in Moscow and in other locations around the U.S.S.R. It is one of the most politicized Olympics ever held due to the number of countries that boycotted in protest of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.

**Tamaño:** 38.5x26

**Tipo de cartel:** Offset

**Fecha de publicación:** 1979

**Información sobre los editores:** Editor S. I. Il’ina; Technical Editor V. Iu. Nikitina

**Información técnica:** Approved for printing December 26, 1978; Publication No. 13a-197; Order No. 9-1396; Format 60 x 90; Volume 1 sheet of paper; 1 conditional sheet of paper; Offset printing offset paper; Price 15 kopeks. A 80202-188 BZ-38-8-79/088(02)-79

**Ediciones:** 100,000

**Número de Glavlit:** A-15295

**Fuentes:** Sarantakes, N. E. (2011). *Dropping the torch: Jimmy Carter, the Olympic boycott, and the Cold War.* Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

**Información en el catálogo:** PP 312 Events b

Artista: Abezgus, Evgenii Vladimirovich — Абезгус, Евгений Владимирович

Evgenii Vladimirovich Abezgus graduated from the Moscow State Art School. In 1961 he began his lifelong career in poster design by taking a position with Izogiz State Publishing. Additionally, he designed posters for "Soviet Artist", "Kolos", "Sanprosvet" and "Planet" publishing houses in the Soviet Union. In 1963 he was awarded a prize by the Union of Artists of the USSR at the Second All-Union Exhibition of the Poster. Throughout ...

Imprenta: Sotsialistichna Kharkivshchina Publishing, Typography Workshop —

The printer, Sotsialistichna Kharkivshchina (Socialistic Kharkov Region), is also the name of a local newspaper.

Editorial: Plakat (All-Union Poster), Moscow — Плакат

Plakat (All-Union Poster) was created in 1974 in Moscow through the work of the Union of Artists and the Central Committee of the Communist Party. The chief of its poster department was Dmitry Akimovich Isaev. Plakat publishers existed until 1991 whereupon it was renamed Panorama publishers.

Juegos Olímpicos, Moscú 1980