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Long Live May 1st Day of review of the fighting forces of working people of all countries!

Poster Number: PP 1146
Category: Events
Poster Notes: Background flags read "Long Live May 1st" in Italian, Polish, Spanish, English and a host of other languages.
Media Size: 35x24.5
Poster Type: Lithograph and Offset
Publishing Date: 1948
Editorial Information: Editor A. Druzhkov
Technical Information on Poster: Publication No. 7904; Order No. 1461; Price 1 ruble
Glavlit Directory Number: A-02013
Catalog Notes: PP 1146 Events b
Artist: Kokorekin, Aleksei Alekseevich — Кокорекин, Алексей Алексеевич
Aleksei Alekseevich Kokorekin was born in a part of Russian Empire that was on the border of the Ottoman Empire. He began is studies in the cites of Krasnodar and Poltava. In 1918, Kokorekin attended the Krasnodar School of Painting and Sculpture where he graduated in 1927. From 1927 to 1929, Kokorekin attended the Kuban' Art and Pedagogical School in Krasnodar. While living in Krasnodar, he worked both as a poster designer and a decorator for the town theater. ...
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Printer: 24th Lithography Workshop of the Poligrafkniga Trust of Ogiz, Leningrad — 24-я типография ОГИЗа РСФСР треста Полиграфкнига, Ленинград
The 24th Lithography Workshop was located at Kronverkskaia and Mir Streets in Leningrad (St. Petersburg). Historically, the workshop had its roots in Imperial Russia and it was a large printing operation founded in 1881 by Theodore Kibbel (a.k.a. Fedor Fyodorovich Kibbel). Shortly after the printer was nationalized by the Soviets, it became the 1st State Lithography Workshop. In 1924, the workshop was named in honor of Mikhail Pavlovich Tomskii (1880-1936), head of the Soviet trade ...
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Publisher: Iskusstvo (Art Publishing House), Moscow-Leningrad — Искусство, Москва-Ленинград
Iskusstvo was the Art Publishing House (A.K.A. Visual Arts Publishing) that was created in 1936 from Ogiz-Izogiz (State Art and Literature Publishing House). It disseminated books and journals dealing with graphic design and the fine arts, and it issued numerous posters. Since the Iskusstvo banner was part of the State Printing Works in Leningrad (St. Petersburg) and Moscow, its two main offices were located in those two cities.
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