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Let’s complete the timely threshing of wheat at accelerated speeds!

Poster Number: PP 465
Category: Agriculture
Media Size: 44.5x32.5
Poster Type: Lithograph
Publishing Date: c.1929
Technical Information on Poster: Order 247 Ukrpoligrafob’ednania [Ukrainian Polygraph Association]
Glavlit Directory Number: 8573. Ukrait, Ukrainian territorial section of Glavlit
Catalog Notes: PP 465 Agriculture
USSR Region: Ukrainian SSR
Language: Ukrainian
Artist: F.Sh. — Ф.Ш.
Artist signs poster with the initials F. Sh. Little is known about the identity and history of the artist other than posters created in their hand were issued in Imperial Russia during World War I.
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Printer: Chromolit Lithography Workshop named for Comrade Dzerzhinskii, Kharkov — Хромолит Типо-литография имени т. Дзержинского, Харьков
Located in Kharkov in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic; the Chromolit Lithography was named in honor of Feliks Edmundovich Dzerzhinskii (1877-1926) who was head of the All-Russian Extraordinary Commission (VChK) internal police who were commonly referred to as the “Cheka”. During its history, the printer was also named the 1st Chromolit Lithography and it was overseen by the printing trust UPKPT (Management of Production and Technical Equipment).
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Publisher: A.Kh.Ch.U. (Association of Artists of the Red Ukraine) — Ассоциация Художников Красной Украины (АХКУ)
Formed in 1926 but in existence as early as 1923, the Association of Artists of the Red Ukraine (A.Kh.Ch.U.) was an artist collective. While its members were classical artists that trained under the realistic school, they strove to develop a fresh, post-revolutionary art aesthetic akin to the principals of the A.Kh.R.R. (Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia). A.Kh.Ch.U. had 14 branches around the Ukrainian SSR and it operated a ...
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