PP 1083 | Poster Plakat

On September 1st, We Will Begin Operation of the First Production Line of the Chirchik Plant

**Poster Number:** PP 1083

**Category:** Industry

**Poster Notes:** Chirchiq (A.K.A. Chirchik) is a city located northeast of Tashkent in Uzbekistan. It was founded in the mid-1930s when a group of villages on the Chirchiq River united during the construction of a hydroelectric power station, one of the most important industrial works ever carried out in Central Asia.

**Media Size:** 29.5x21.5

**Poster Type:** Lithograph

**Publishing Date:** 1940

**Editorial Information:** Editor-in-Chief I. Sanridonov; Text Editor P. Umanskii.

**Technical Information on Poster:** Order No. 316b, 1940; Price 1 ruble.

**Print Run:** 5,000

**Glavlit Directory Number:** 2782. UzGlavlit, Uzbekistan section of Glavlit

**Sources & Citation:** Water and water engineering. (1935). London: Fuel & Metallurgical Journals Ltd. (P. 94, Chirchiq Station mentioned in Volume 37)

**Catalog Notes:** PP 1080 Industry b

**USSR Region:** Uzbek SSR

**Language:** Uzbek

**Additional Languages:** Russian

Artist: Reich, Mikhail Voldemarovich — Рейх, Михаил Вольдемарович

Mikhail Voldemarovich Reich was a Soviet graphic artist, painter, and illustrator. The artist began his career starting in 1920 to 1923 at the Shock Movement School of Arts of the East (a.k.a. School of Oriental Arts) in Poltoratsk, Turkmen SSR (today, Ashgabat, Uzbekistan). While his education was not essentially artistic, he remained in the Uzbek SSR after his schooling to work as an illustrator for newspapers and magazines. This decision helped refined his illustration skills. ...

On September 1st, We Will Begin Operation of the First Production Line of the Chirchik Plant