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Greetings for [International Women’s Day] the 8th of March

Poster Number: PP 251
Category: Women
Poster Notes: March 8th is International Woman's Day. The rocket in background is Vostok 6, the last spacecraft in the USSR's manned-flight program. In 1963, it carried Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space.
Media Size: 37.5x24
Poster Type: Offset
Publishing Date: 1964
Editorial Information: Editor O. Ivashchenko.
Technical Information on Poster: [Approved] September 5, 1964; Publication No. 1-549; Volume 1 sheet of paper; Order No. 572; Price 10 kopeks.
Glavlit Directory Number: A00790
Catalog Notes: PP 251 Women (Shrink Wrap)
Artist: Toidze, Iraklii Moiseevich — Тоидзе, Ираклий Моисеевич
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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