PP 520 | Poster Plakat

If you forget where the borders are, we’ll help you “land”!

**Poster Number:** PP 520

**Category:** Cold War

**Poster Notes:** Poster appears to refer to the capture of the U.S. spy plane pilot Capt. Francis Gary Powers and yet, the poster was produced in 1959, one year prior to Powers' infamous crash-landing in Sverdlovsk, USSR.

**Media Size:** 38x27

**Poster Type:** Offset

**Publishing Date:** 1959

**Technical Information on Poster:** Publication No. 1079 G; Paper format 60x92/1. Offset; Order No. 1642; Price 1 ruble

**Glavlit Directory Number:** G03248

**Catalog Notes:** PP 520 Cold War b

Artist: Maloletkov, Evgenii Stepanovich — Малолетков, Евгений Степанович

The short but creative life of Evgenii Stepanovich Maloletkov stands out among the Soviet graphic artists of his era. Maloletkov principally worked as a cartoonist and poster artist during his brief career. Early on, he studied at the studio of Mikhail Leblan, the noted Russian painter. In the 1930s, Maloletkov was under the tutelage of painter Fedor Rerberg. From late 1930s into the early 1940s, he was enrolled at the Moscow State Art Institute. He ...

If you forget where the borders are, we’ll help you “land”!