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Pioneers and school children, help consumer cooperatives spread books in the village

Poster Number: PP 1010
Category: Youth
Poster Notes: [On book pages]: “In hours of work or of leisure, a book is [your] best friend"; “The book peddler helps the party in the struggle for the new way of living"; “The book peddler carries books to the collective and state farms.” [Partial translation]
Media Size: 36x26.5
Poster Type: Lithograph
Publishing Date: 1930
Technical Information on Poster: Approved for printing April 11, 1930; Order No. 957; Price, Free of Charge
Glavlit Directory Number: 1037 Dal'krailit, Eastern Territory office of Glavlit
Catalog Notes: PP 1010 Youth
Artist: Sudomora, Okhrim Ivanovich — Судомора, Охрим Иванович
Printer: 5th Typolithography Workshop, Khabarovsk — 5-я типолитография, Хабаровск
Little historical information is available on the 5th Typolithography Workshop in Khabarovsk. According published sources from the Soviet-era, during the mid-1950s, the 5th Typolithography was under the management of Gostatizdat (State Statistical Publishing House). The city of Khabarovsk is in Far Eastern Russia, and the printer was situated at 45 Lеv Tolstoi Street.
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Publisher: Dalkraisoiuz (Far-Eastern Territories Union of Consumer Societies) — Далькрайсоюз
This publisher produced literature and information specific to Eastern Russia. The publisher was in existence during the 1920s. Geographically, from 1926 to 1938, the Far Eastern Region of the USSR was a province known as Dal'nevostnochi krai or Dalkrai in its abbreviated format.
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