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Glory to Labor!

Poster Number: PP 177
Category: Workers
Poster Notes: This poster is oversized. This poster design was re-printed for the Nineth Five Year Plan of 1971-1975.
Media Size: 51x26
Poster Type: Offset
Publishing Date: 1963
Editorial Information: Pending
Technical Information on Poster: Pending
Glavlit Directory Number: storage Jackson set?
Catalog Notes: PP 177 Workers (oversized)
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: 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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