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Comrade miners!  We are pushing forward coal production on the Bolshevik path to victory! We are fostering Izotov’s advanced techniques! We are overcoming bureaucratic methods of management in coal production! We are giving mines and coal faces permanent engineering-technical cadres!

Comrade miners! We are pushing forward coal production on the Bolshevik path to victory! We are fostering Izotov’s advanced techniques! We are overcoming bureaucratic methods of management in coal production! We are giving mines and coal faces permanent engineering-technical cadres!

Poster Number: PP 1022
Category: Industry
Poster Notes: Nikita Alekseevich Izotov was a Stakhanovite coal miner of Donbass.
Media Size: 40x28
Poster Type: Lithograph
Publishing Date: 1933
Editorial Information: Editor Usynin; Text Editor Iakovlov
Technical Information on Poster: Izogiz No. 6022. I. 37; No. 1226; Submitted for printing July 3, 1933; Approved for printing July 19, 1933; Standard Format 73 x 104, 1 sheet of paper; Order No. 2559; Price 85 kopeks
Glavlit Directory Number: B-31437
Sources & Citation: Sotheby's Gallery. (1994). USSR in Contstruction: Posters, Designs and Drawings. [Auction catalog]. New York: Sotheby's, Inc. (p. 159, poster cited)
Catalog Notes: PP 1022 Industry b
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