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Poster Number: PP 1124
Category: Youth
Poster Notes: A female middle school student escorts the younger cadet on his first day of school. As was the Soviet-era (and Russian) custom, the cadet holds flowers destined for his teacher.
Media Size: 33x24
Poster Type: Lithograph
Publishing Date: 1958
Editorial Information: Editor M. Sergeeva
Technical Information on Poster: July 3, 1957. Publication No. 1-422. Volume 1 sheet of paper. Order No. 350. Price 1 ruble.
Glavlit Directory Number: Sh04795
Catalog Notes: PP 1124 Youth
Artist: Kossov, A. — Коссов, А.
Printer: Kalinin City Poligrafkombinat of Sovnarkhoz of the RSFSR — Калининский полиграфический комбинат Московского совнархоза Верховного Совета РСФСР
The Poligrafkombinat (printing plant) of Kalinin was the printer for Sovnarkhoz RSFSR (the Regional Council of National Economy of the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic). Sovnarkhoz was an economic reorganization that came about in 1957 when over 100 "economic regions" were created in the USSR to localize and reduce the inordinate role of state administered, top-down economics. The printer was located at 5 Lenin Avenue (formerly Voroshilov Street) in the city of Kalinin (Tver) northwest of ...
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Publisher: IzoGiz (State Publishing House of Fine Art), Moscow — Изогиз (Государственное издательство изобразительного искусства), Москва
The history of IzoGiz begins with the formation of Ogiz, the Association of the State Book and Magazine Publishers. In 1930, the Sovnarkom of the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic established Ogiz to centralize publishing under a monopoly in order to eliminate duplication of printed material, to streamline and control publishing production and its output, and to create a base for marketing books, training and technical manuals. In 1931, the Central Committee of the USSR ordered certain ...
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