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Hail, un-met, new generation! Glory to the great Russian poet Pushkin!

Poster Number: PP 453
Poster Notes: This poster is oversized.

[On statue]
To Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin

[On banner]
Long live the flowering of culture of the peoples of the USSR

[On upper banner]
Long live the great party of Lenin-Stalin, which is the leader and organizer of the victorious creation of socialism!

[On bottom banner]
The country of socialism hails the great poet!

Media Size: 62x43
Poster Type: Lithograph and Offset
Publishing Date: 1936
Editorial Information: Editor M. Ioffe; Technical Editor E. Strukov
Technical Information on Poster: Izogiz No. 8563; Submitted for production September 13, 1936 [and approved] for printing December 1, 1936; Standard format 77 x 109; Volume 2 sheets of paper; Order No. 975; Price 3 rubles; [Printed at] 3 Mir Street
Glavlit Directory Number: B-27169
Catalog Notes: PP 453 Communist Culture (oversized)
Artist: Klutsis, Gustav Gustavovich (Klucis, Gustavs) — Клуцис, Густав Густавович
Gustav Klutsis is considered the foremost artist of Soviet photomontage. Born near the small town of Ruiena, Latvia, (when Lativa was part of the Russian Empire), Klutsis attended the State Art School in Riga from 1913 to 1915 and then moved to Petrograd (St. Petersburg) during immediately prior to the October Revolution. Klutsis took part in a volunteer rifle regiment that helped overturn the Tsarist regime during the revolution. After the revolution, he continued his studies in ...
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Printer: 24th Lithography Workshop of the Poligrafkniga Trust of Ogiz, Leningrad — 24-я типография ОГИЗа РСФСР треста Полиграфкнига, Ленинград
The 24th Lithography Workshop was located at Kronverkskaia and Mir Streets in Leningrad (St. Petersburg). Historically, the workshop had its roots in Imperial Russia and it was a large printing operation founded in 1881 by Theodore Kibbel (a.k.a. Fedor Fyodorovich Kibbel). Shortly after the printer was nationalized by the Soviets, it became the 1st State Lithography Workshop. In 1924, the workshop was named in honor of Mikhail Pavlovich Tomskii (1880-1936), head of the Soviet trade ...
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Publisher: Ogiz-IzoGiz, Moscow-Leningrad — Огиз-Изогиз, Москва-Ленинград
Ogiz was the Association of the State Book and Magazine Publishers. Its main offices were located in Moscow and in Leningrad. The Sovnarkom of the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic established Ogiz in 1930 to centralize publishing activities under a state monopoly in order to eliminate duplication of printed material, streamline and control publishing production and output, and to create a base for marketing books, training and technical manuals. In 1931, the Central Committee of the USSR ...
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