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A Giant of Agricultural Machinery Manufacturing.
During the ongoing collectivization old-fashioned agricultural tools will pass into history, yielding their place to improved machines and tools.  
To satisfy demands of a collectivized country for machines we are reinforcing agricultural machinery manufacturing.  [Partial translation]

A Giant of Agricultural Machinery Manufacturing. During the ongoing collectivization old-fashioned agricultural tools will pass into history, yielding their place to improved machines and tools. To satisfy demands of a collectivized country for machines we are reinforcing agricultural machinery manufacturing. [Partial translation]

Poster Number: PP 584
Category: Agriculture
Poster Notes: Written on the farm machine is "Sel'mash", a syndicate of agricultural machinery factories. The portmanteau Sel'mash means sel'skokhoziaistvennye mashiny (agriculture machines) and, the main Sel'mash factory was in Rostov-on-Don.
Media Size: 32х24
Poster Type: Lithograph
Publishing Date: 1931
Catalog Notes: PP 584 Agriculture b
Artist: Zernova, Ekaterina Sergeevna — Зернова, Екатерина Сергеевна
Ekaterina Sergeevna Zernova studied in Moscow at the private art school of the master painter Fedor Rerberg from 1915 to 1918. She continued her studies at GSKhM (State Free Artistic Studios) / VHKUTEMAS (Russian State Art and Technical School) where she graduated in 1924. She was a prominent artist with OST (Obshchestvo khudozhnikov-stankovistov), the Society of Easel Artists that was formed in 1924. When OST was terminated, she became a member of IzoBrigada (Art Brigade). Formed in 1931 to advance "...
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Publisher: Ogiz-IzoGiz, Moscow-Leningrad — Огиз-Изогиз, Москва-Ленинград
Ogiz was the Association of the State Book and Magazine Publishers. Its main offices were located in Moscow and in Leningrad. The Sovnarkom of the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic established Ogiz in 1930 to centralize publishing activities under a state monopoly in order to eliminate duplication of printed material, streamline and control publishing production and output, and to create a base for marketing books, training and technical manuals. In 1931, the Central Committee of the USSR ...
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