PP 1131 | Poster Plakat

27 February – 22 March – 1927
5th Kiev Contract Trade Fair
With all questions about the Market, contact: Kiev, Trade Fair Committee, Petrovka, Red Square 2b.
Telegraph address: Kiev, Market
General Representative of the Trade Fair in Moscow and throughout the USSR is: “Transport” First Joint Stock Company. — 27 February – 22 March – 1927 5th Kiev Contract Trade Fair With all questions about the Market, contact: Kiev, Trade Fair Committee, Petrovka, Red Square 2b. Telegraph address: Kiev, Market General Representative of the Trade Fair in Moscow and throughout the USSR is: “Transport” First Joint Stock Company.

**Poster Number:** PP 1131

**Category:** Events

**Poster Notes:** The Kiev Contract Fair operated from 1797 to 1927. Trade and credit agreements were initially made at the fair but in its latter years, it became a simple commercial fair. While its importance diminished after the 1917 October Revolution, it ultimately ceased activity owing to anti-private ownership measures by the government.

**Media Size:** 44x30.5

**Poster Type:** Lithograph

**Publishing Date:** 1927

**Technical Information on Poster:** No. 752

**Print Run:** 1,500

**Glavlit Directory Number:** 186. Kiev Okrlit, the district office section of Glavlit in Kiev

**Sources & Citation:** Kubijovyc, V. (1984) *Encyclopedia of Ukraine Volume I: A-F Plus Map and Gazetteer*. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

**Catalog Notes:** PP 1131 Events b

**USSR Region:** Ukrainian SSR

**Language:** Ukrainian

**Additional Languages:** Russian

Artist: Artist Unknown — неизвестный художник

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Printer: Kiev-Druk Trust Typography Printing House, Kiev — Tипография Киев-Друк Трест, Киев

Kiev-Druk (i.e. Kiev-Printing) was a major typographic firm in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic from the 1920s to the 1930s. It turned out printed materials including books and posters. While its offices were located at 19 Lenin Boulevard in Kiev, the trust managed several Kiev-based printers and had satellite departments around the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.