Skip to content

The endless steppe has awakened from sleep, spring brings to us the happiness of communism!

Poster Number: PP 1149
Poster Notes: Illustrated on this poster is Dzhambul Dabaiuly (1846-1945), a Kazakh akyn (folksinger) who was popular during the Stalinist-era; the father figure next to Dzhambul is an ethnic Kazakh. He is wearing a Hero of Socialist Labor medal awarded for achievements in the national economy and in culture
Media Size: 34x25
Poster Type: Lithograph and Offset
Publishing Date: c.1951
Editorial Information: Editor M. Ioffe
Technical Information on Poster: [Approved] October 17, 1950; Publication No. 9219; Volume 1 sheet of paper; Order No. 506-D; Price 1 ruble.
Glavlit Directory Number: A06471
Catalog Notes: PP 1149 Communist Culture c
Artist: Marize-Krasnokutskia, Mariia Alekseevna — Маризе-Краснокутская, Мария Алексеевна
Printer: Printing plant named for Dunaev, [Moscow] — Типография имени Дунаева, [Москва]
The Dunaev printing plant was located at 9 Bolshaia Polianka in Moscow. Headquartered inside the former Menert Brothers printing plant, during the 1920s, the firm was named in honor of the Bolshevik leader Evlampii Dunaev (1877-1919) who served as assistant chairman of the Soviet of Nizhny Novgorod. Dunaev was also a member of the provisioning committee and he served on the Nizhny Novgorod Council of Local Economy. During the Civil War, he reportedly died from typhus. ...
Read More About This Printer
Publisher: Iskusstvo (Art Publishing House), Moscow — Искусство, Москва
Iskusstvo was the Art Publishing House (A.K.A. Visual Arts Publishing) that was created in 1936 from Ogiz-Izogiz (State Art and Literature Publishing House). It disseminated books and journals dealing with graphic design and the fine arts, and it issued numerous posters. Since the Iskusstvo banner was part of the State Printing Works in Leningrad (St. Petersburg) and Moscow, its two main offices were located in those two cities.
Read More About This Publisher