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Vostok Miners! More coal from the mountain!

Poster Number: PP 1145
Category: Industry
Poster Notes: [On train car]: "Fulfill the Five-Year Plan in Four Years!"; Poster was published specifically for the coal industry in the eastern regions of the USSR.
Media Size: 31.5x25
Poster Type: Lithograph
Publishing Date: 1948
Technical Information on Poster: Order No. 1713; Volume 2 sheets of paper; Price 5 rubles
Glavlit Directory Number: M-16311
Catalog Notes: PP 1145 Industry b
Artist: Evstigneev, B.I. — Евстигнеев, Б.И.
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: Ugletekhizdat (State Scientific and Technical Publishing House of Coal Industry Literature), Moscow-Leningrad — Углетехиздат (Государственное научно-техническое издательство литературы по угольной промышленности), Москва-Ленинград
Ugletekhizdat (State Scientific and Technical Publishing House of Coal Industry Literature) was founded in the 1940s based on research of various periodicals it issued in that period. While its chief output consisted of technical manuals for the mining industry, Ugletekhizdat also published a complement of posters related to that industry in the Soviet Union.
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