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Let’s increase from 1951 to 1955 the number of places in pre-schools by 20%, in kindergartens by 40%. Grow up healthy!

Poster Number: PP 511
Category: Youth
Poster Notes: While the doctor appears to be Russian, the mother of the baby is Uzbek. The statistical information seen on the poster pertains to goals of the Five-Year Plan of 1951-1955.
Media Size: 38.5x30.5
Poster Type: Offset
Publishing Date: 1954
Editorial Information: Editor O. Legran
Technical Information on Poster: Submitted for printing February 2, 1954; Publication No. 510; Volume 1 sheet of paper; Order No. 1747; Price 1 ruble
Glavlit Directory Number: A-00096
Catalog Notes: PP 511 Youth
Artist: Shubina, Galina Konstantinova — Шубина, Галина Константиновна
Galina Konstantinova Shubina graduated from VKHUTEIN [Higher Art and Technical Institute] in Leningrad in 1928. Her main area of specialization was in graphic design and it included the development of posters. In 1929, she began to exhibit her work. Starting in 1940 and continuing into the 1950s, Shubina produced posters for Izogiz, the Soviet-based publisher. The body of work she created for the publisher launched her career and it made her one of the best-known female graphic artists ...
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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: 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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