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Cotton-growers! In these times, your sacrosanct duty, friends, is to give the country as much cotton as possible, that valued raw material! – A. Zharov

Poster Number: PP 958
Category: Agriculture
Poster Notes: The woman is wearing an Uzbek costume and is styled as a Soviet-era depiction of the nation's cotton farming success.
Media Size: 37.5x23
Poster Type: Lithograph
Publishing Date: 1947
Editorial Information: Editor K. Erinova
Technical Information on Poster: [Approved for printing] July 7, 1946; Publication [Print] No. 7222; Volume 1 sheet of paper; Order No. 1592; Price 1 ruble
Glavlit Directory Number: A08376
Catalog Notes: PP 958 Agriculture b
Artist: Shubina, Galina Konstantinova — Шубина, Галина Константиновна
Galina Konstantinova Shubina graduated from VKHUTEIN [Higher Art and Technical Institute] in Leningrad in 1928. Her main area of specialization was in graphic design and it included the development of posters. In 1929, she began to exhibit her work. Starting in 1940 and continuing into the 1950s, Shubina produced posters for Izogiz, the Soviet-based publisher. The body of work she created for the publisher launched her career and it made her one of the best-known female graphic artists ...
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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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