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Glory to October 1917-1967

Poster Number: PP 254
Category: Revolution
Poster Notes: Poster commemorates the 50th anniversary of the October Revolution.
Media Size: 37.5x28.5
Poster Type: Offset
Publishing Date: 1967
Editorial Information: Editor O. Ivashchenko
Technical Information on Poster: February 1, 1967; Publication No. 1-274; Volume 1 sheet of paper; Order No. 803; Price 10 kopeks; 8-2-2/67.
Glavlit Directory Number: A02644
Catalog Notes: PP 254 Revolution (Shrink Wrap)
Artist: Karakashev, Vilen Surenovich — Каракашев, Вилен Суренович
Printer: Kalinin City Poligrafkombinat of Glavpoligrafprom — Калининский полиграфический комбинат Главполиграфпрома
The Kalinin Poligrafkombinat (printing plant) was located at 5 Lenin Avenue (formerly Voroshilov Street) in Kalinin (Tver) northwest of Moscow. Throughout its existence, the name of this printing plant changed depending on the various state-owned trusts that handled its management. During the mid-1950s into the 1970s, the plant was under the management of Glavpoligrafprom (Main Directorate of the Printing Industry).
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Publisher: Sovietskii Khudozhnik (Soviet Artist), Moscow — Советский художник, Москва
Sovietskii Khudozhnik (Soviet Artist) was a publishing house that chiefly served the Artists’ Union of the USSR. The publishing house was founded in Moscow in 1946 and it turned out illustrated monographs on contemporary artists and collections. It also published art reproductions, postcards and art books, art catalogs, brochures and posters. During a reorganization of the publishing sector in the USSR in 1964, Soviet Artist merged with Izogiz, the fine arts section of Ogiz (Association of the St...
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