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For human happiness, Great October Is like the sun, rising over our land – Our country is illuminated by its electric light And the radiance of the factory-building lights!

Poster Number: PP 1046
Category: Industry
Poster Notes: The woman is holding a poetry book by author Yanka Kupala, the pen name of Ivan Daminikavich Lutsevich, a Belorussian poet and writer.
Media Size: 38.5x27
Poster Type: Lithograph and Offset
Publishing Date: 1957
Editorial Information: Editor N. Gutsiew; Text Editor A. Stavera.
Technical Information on Poster: Order No. 129; Price 1 ruble.
Glavlit Directory Number: AT 03547
Catalog Notes: PP 1046 Industry b
USSR Region: Belarusian SSR
Language: Belarusian
Artist: Romanov, Sergei (Ramanaw, S.R.) — Романы, С. Р. (Раманаў, С. Р.)
Printer: Minsk Lithographic Poligrafkombinat named for Iakub Kolas — Минский литографический полиграфкомбинат имени Якуба Коласа
Iakub Kolas (1882-1958) was born Kanstantsin Mitskievich. He is considered a founder of modern Belorussian literature. A child of peasants, he grew-up in a small village near Minsk and from his humble origins went on to become the People's Poet of the Belorussian SSR and a member and vice-president of the Belorussian Academy of Sciences.
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Publisher: State Publishing House, Belorussian SSR — Государственное издательство, Белорусской ССР
The State Publishing House had its origins in Imperial Russia as the Royal Print Yard in St. Petersburg. As the Red Army increased its control over the provinces and cities in former Imperial Russia, the State Publishing House developed offices outside St. Petersburg. The Belorussian SSR bordered Poland to the west, the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR) to the east, the Lithuanian SSR and Latvian SSR to the north, and the Ukrainian SSR to ...
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