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Soviet Soldier! Carrying on your service abroad, be on guard for the state interests of our Motherland.

Poster Number: PP 944
Category: Military
Media Size: 44.5x30.5
Poster Type: Lithograph and Offset
Publishing Date: 1952
Editorial Information: Editor S. S. Ural’skii; Artistic editor G. N. Shchetkin
Technical Information on Poster: Approved for printing December 21, 1951; Voenizdat (Military Publishing House) I-9/5497.
Glavlit Directory Number: G 52352
Catalog Notes: PP 944 Military b
Artist: Solov'ev, Mikhail Mikailovich — Соловьёв, Михаил Михайлович
Mikhail Mikailovich Solov'ev was born in Moscow. In 1930 he graduated from the advanced courses of the A.Kh.R.R. (Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia). While he began his professional career as a painter, from 1944 on, he exclusively designed posters. He was made a member of the Union of Soviet Artists in 1933 and later, he led the poster section of the Moscow Union of Artists. During the 1930s, Solov'ev worked on posters and dioramas ...
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Publisher: Voenizdat (Military Publishers) — Воениздат
Voenizdat (Military Publishers) was the Military Publishing House of the Ministry of Defense of the USSR (voennoe izdatelstvo). Established in Moscow in 1919; Voenizdat published literature for the defense industry such as technical manuals and dictionaries. It also published posters, pamphlets and fiction and non-fiction literature frequently containing military themes. Voenizdat's predecessor was Litizdat, the publishing arm of the Revolutionary Military Soviet.
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