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Glory to the soviet people! 

Poster Number: PP 310
Category: Workers
Media Size: 44.5x29
Poster Type: Offset
Publishing Date: 1957
Editorial Information: Editor M. Dmitrieva
Technical Information on Poster: [Approved] November 10, 1956; Publication No. 1-258; Order No. 2427; Volume 1 sheet of paper; Ministry of Culture USSR Central Administrative Board of the Graphic Arts Industry; Price 1 ruble
Glavlit Directory Number: Sh07051.
Catalog Notes: PP 310 Workers
Artist: Kominarets (Komenarets), Igor Aleksandrovich — Коминарец (Коменарец), Игорь Александрович
Printer: 1st Exemplary Typography Workshop named for A. A. Zhdanov, Moscow — 1-я Образцовая типография им. А.А. Жданова
The 1st Exemplary Typography Workshop was named in honor of Andrei Alexandrovich Zhdanov (1896-1948), a Soviet military leader and a senior member of the Politburo who died in 1948. Reportedly, Andrei Zhdanov controlled the atomic espionage division of the USSR and he was Josef Stalin's closest confidant. Historically, the 1st Exemplary Typography Workshop began as the Sharapov-Sytin Partnerhip, a printing workshop formed before the Russian Revolution. Ivan Dmitrievich Sytin (1851-1934) was the son of a peasant. ...
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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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