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Long Live the All-Union Day of the Physical Culturalist!

Poster Number: PP 497
Poster Notes: The two Soviet fitzkulturists are illustrated as performing at Red Square in Moscow.
Media Size: 35.5x27.5
Poster Type: Lithograph
Publishing Date: 1946
Editorial Information: Editor K. Yerinova
Technical Information on Poster: [Approved] June 30, 1946; Publication Number 7113; Volume 1 sheet of paper; Order No. 1482; Price 1 ruble.
Glavlit Directory Number: A 06312
Catalog Notes: PP 497 Communist Culture
Artist: Nesterova-Berzina, Maria Aleksandrovna — Нестерова-Берзина, Мария Александровна
Printer: 3rd Krasnii Proletarii (Red Proletarian) Typography Workshop of Poligrafkniga of Ogiz, Moscow — 3-я типография Красный Пролетарий Типография треста Полиграфкнига (ОГИЗа) при Совете Министров СССР, Москва
The Krasnii Proletarii Workshop originated under the ownership of Ivan Kushnerev, a Russian entrepreneur who founded the Kushnerev & Company Printing Shop in 1869 in Moscow. When Kushnerev died in 1896, his printing operation was one of the largest in Imperial Russia. In 1919, the printer was nationalized by the Soviets and consigned to the Printing Section of the Moscow Economic Council (MSNKh).) It later became the 3rd Krasnii Proletarii Book Printing Plant when its location (at 16 Pimenovskaia ...
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Publisher: Iskusstvo (Art Publishing House), Moscow-Leningrad — Искусство, Москва-Ленинград
Iskusstvo was the Art Publishing House (A.K.A. Visual Arts Publishing) that was created in 1936 from Ogiz-Izogiz (State Art and Literature Publishing House). It disseminated books and journals dealing with graphic design and the fine arts, and it issued numerous posters. Since the Iskusstvo banner was part of the State Printing Works in Leningrad (St. Petersburg) and Moscow, its two main offices were located in those two cities.
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