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Glory to the heroic armed forces of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics!

Poster Number: PP 220
Category: Military
Poster Notes: Poster is oversized. (Left to right) The Army, the Air Force and the Navy.
Media Size: 67.5x49
Poster Type: Offset
Publishing Date: 1976
Editorial Information: Editor V. Maslennikov; Technical Editor U. Bel’chikova
Technical Information on Poster: Submitted for printing January 29, 1976; Publication No. 1633; Format 60 x 108; [Volume] 3 sheets of paper + text; 4.2 conditional sheets of paper; Offset paper No 1. Order 757; Price 27 kopeks. A 80202-170 B3-10-18-75. /088 (02)-76; [Printed at] 7 [9?] Kronverkskaia Street
Glavlit Directory Number: A-13348
Catalog Notes: PP 220 Military (oversized)
Artist: Antonov, Konstantin Mikhailovich — Антонов, Константин Михайлович
Konstantin Mikhailovich Antonov was a Soviet painter and graphic artist. He studied at the Moscow Secondary Art School from 1936 to 1941. After leaving the school, Antonov received a recommendation for an expedited admission into the Moscow State Art Institute. During his first year there, the Second World War began. Antonov served on the First Ukrainian Front with the 10th division RVGK (Artillery Reserve of the Supreme High Command). He attained the rank of sergeant and was ...
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Printer: Leningrad Offset Printing Plant — Ленинградское Офсетная типография
The Leningrad Offset Printing Plant was located near Kronverkskaia and Mir Streets in Leningrad (St. Petersburg). Historically, the printer had roots in Imperial Russia as a large operation founded in 1881 by Theodore Kibbel (Fedor Fyodorovich Kibbel') until it was nationalized by the Soviets in 1917. After its initial nationalization, the printer's management (via a series of government-controlled printing trusts) and its name both changed over the decades until it ultimately became the Leningrad Offset Printing Plant ...
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Publisher: Plakat (All-Union Poster), Moscow — Плакат
Plakat (All-Union Poster) was created in 1974 in Moscow through the work of the Union of Artists and the Central Committee of the Communist Party. The chief of its poster department was Dmitry Akimovich Isaev. Plakat publishers existed until 1991 whereupon it was renamed Panorama publishers.
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