Millions of posters were produced in the Soviet Union from 1917 to 1991 and the role of the printer was critical to poster output. After the artist produced a maquette (a preliminary sketch), this artistic example was sent to the publisher as well as to the censorship office for approval. If approved, the maquette was created into a full-sized poster and then the printer prepared the design for duplication.
With over 1,000 posters in the Poster Plakat Collection, the history of the Soviet Union's printing and publishing sectors is visualized on this website. Use the searchable index below to locate each printer in the Collection. Each printer name below links to the corresponding posters they produced.
- 1
- 13th State Typography of Ogiz, Moscow
- 15th State Typography Workshop, Petrograd [St. Petersburg]
- 17th Typo-lithography Workshop of the Poligrafkniga Trust, Moscow
- 1st Electro-Typolithography Workshop of Sovnarkoz
- 1st Exemplary Gosizdat Typolithography Workshop, Moscow
- 1st Exemplary Ogiz RSFSR Typography Workshop of the Poligrafkniga Trust, Moscow
- 1st Exemplary Typography Workshop named for A. A. Zhdanov, Moscow
- 1st Lithography Workshop of the Latvian Poligraf Trust, Riga [Lativa]
- 1st Offset Printing Plant of UPP of the Lensovnarkoz, Leningrad
- 1st Printing House of the Kiev-Druk Trust, Kiev
- 1st Soviet Typography Workshop
- 1st State Cartographic Institution, Petrograd
- 1st State Lithography Workshop, Leningrad (formerly Kibbel)
- 1st State Typo-lithography Workshop, Moscow (formerly Sytin)
- 1st Ural State Lithography Workshop, Ekaterinburg
- 2
- 20th State Typolithography Workshop, Moscow
- 24th Lithography Workshop by the Council of Ministries of the USSR, Leningrad
- 24th Lithography Workshop of Glavpoligrafizdat, Leningrad
- 24th Lithography Workshop of the Poligrafkniga Trust of Ogiz, Leningrad
- 26 Baku Commissars Printing House, Azerbaijan
- 2nd Book Printing Plant of the Sevkravkraisoiuz, Rostov-on-Don
- 2nd Soviet Typography [Photo-Lithography] Workshop, Kiev
- 2nd State Griaznaia Lithography Workshop
- 2nd State Typography Lithography Workshop, Moscow
- 2nd State Typography Workshop, Kazan'
- 3
- 3rd Krasnii Proletarii (Red Proletarian) Typography Workshop of Glavpoligrafizdat, Moscow
- 3rd Krasnii Proletarii (Red Proletarian) Typography Workshop of Glavpoligrafprom, Moscow
- 3rd Krasnii Proletarii (Red Proletarian) Typography Workshop of Poligrafkniga of Ogiz, Moscow
- 3rd Krasnii Proletarii (Red Proletarian) Typography Workshop of Poligrafkniga, Moscow
- 3rd Krasnii Proletarii (Red Proletarian) Typography Workshop of Soiuzpoligrafprom, Moscow
- 3rd Soviet Typography Workshop, Poltava
- 3rd State Typolithography Workshop, Moscow (formerly Kushnerev)
- 4
- 4th Poligraphic Plant named for Lenin, Kiev
- 4th Typolithography Workshop [of the] Uzbek Lithography Publishing House, [Tashkent]
- 5
- 5th State Typolithography Workshop, Moscow (formerly Russian Partnership)
- 5th Typography, Moscow
- 5th Typolithography Workshop, Khabarovsk
- 7
- 7th Printing House of the Kiev-Druk Trust, Kiev
- 7th Typography Workshop of UVI/UMVI
- 8
- 8th Soviet Typolithography, Odessa
- A
- A.F. Marks Lithography Workshop
- A.I. Mamontov Typography Partnership, Moscow
- AIZ (Association of Inventors)
- Azpoligraftrust, Azerbaijan
- B
- Bakpoligraf Trust Lithography, Baku [Azerbaijan]
- Bumpoligraftrust (Printing and Paper Trust)
- C
- Carl Werner Offset Printer, Germany
- Cartography Workshop of KazNKZ (Kazakh People's Commissariat)
- Chromolit Lithography Workshop named for Comrade Dzerzhinskii, Kharkov
- Chromolit Lithography Workshop, Leningrad
- Chromolithography named for Il'ich, Rostov-On-Don
- Communist Typography Workshop, Tallinn
- Cootypographie Typography Workshop, France
- D
- Detgiz (Children's State Book Printing)
- Dmitrov Offset Printing Plant [Moscow/Dmitrov]
- Doloi Negramotnost' (Down with Illiteracy)
- E
- EZGB (State Paper Procurement Expedition)
- G
- GIZ Lithography
- Goskomizdat USSR (State Committee on Publishing in the USSR), Leningrad
- Gosplanizdat, Moscow
- Goznak Printing Plant, Moscow
- Graphic Art Printing Plant named for V.M. Molotov, Moscow
- GSNKh (Provincial Council of National Economy) 2nd Typo-lithography Workshop
- Gudok Typography Workshop, Moscow
- H
- Headquarters of the Reserve Armies of the Republic
- I
- I.M. Mashistov Typolithography, Moscow
- I.N. Kushnerev Typolithography, Moscow
- I.S. Fuki Typography-Lithography, Moscow
- IKMP Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic Lithography Workshop, Kiev
- Illegible Printer Name
- Iskra Revolutsii (Revolutionary Spark) Typography Workshop, Moscow
- Iskusstvo Publishing House Lithography Workshop, Moscow
- Izostat Institute Typolithography Workshop, Moscow
- Izvetsia (News) All-Union Central Executive Committee Typography Offset Print Shop
- K
- Kalinin City Poligrafkombinat
- Kalinin City Poligrafkombinat of Glavpoligrafprom
- Kalinin City Poligrafkombinat of Soiuzpoligrafprom
- Kalinin City Poligrafkombinat of Sovnarkhoz of the RSFSR, Kalinin
- Kishinev City Poligrafkombinat
- Knigospilka Lithography, Kharkov
- Kommunar Publishing House Typography Workshop, Tula
- Krasnii Proletarii (Red Proletarian), Moscow
- Krasnoe Znamia Typography Workshop, Moscow
- L
- Leningrad Offset Printing Plant
- Leningrad Union of Soviet Artists (LOSSKh)
- Lenizdat (Leningrad State Publishing) Typography Workshop
- Lithograph "AIZ" (Association of Inventors), Moscow
- Lithography Workshop of the Central Publishing House, Moscow
- LPT Typography, Riga
- LRTPP Typography, Riga
- LT UN-9, Leningrad
- M
- M. I. Levin Chromolithography and Typography, Kharkov [Ukraine]
- Main Directorate of Typography, Riga
- May Fine Art Prints and Publishing (KAMAG)
- MGSNKh Typo-lithography Workshop, Moscow
- Moscow Offset Printing Plant
- Moscow Typolithography Workshop No. 5
- Moskust Lithography
- Mosoblpoligraf (Moscow Regional Printers), Moscow
- Mospoligraf (Moscow Polygraphic) 15th Lithography Workshop, Moscow (formerly Mashistov)
- Mospoligraf (Moscow Polygraphic), Moscow
- MSNKh 16th State Publishing Typography Workshop, Moscow (formerly Levinson)
- MSNKh 17th Typolithography, Zamoskvorech'e [Moscow]
- MSNKh 1st Exemplary Printing, Moscow
- MSNKh 5th Typolithography, Moscow
- N
- Narkomvoen, Ukraine
- NKMP Typolithography Workshop, North Ossetian ASSR
- NKMP Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic Lithography Workshop, Ukraine
- NKMP Uzpoligrafkombinat Lithography Workshop, Uzbekistan
- O
- Offset Printing House, Budapest
- Offset Printing Plant of Rosglavpoligrafprom
- Offset Printing Plant of the UVI MO
- Oktoober (October) Printers, [Tallinn, Estonia]
- Orbis, Czechoslovakia
- OSVOD (Society for Promotion of Development of Water Transport and Protection of Human Life on Waterways)
- P
- Partvidav Book Printing Plant of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (Bolshevik) Ukraine
- Pechatnik (Print Worker) Typolithography Workshop, Moscow
- Pechatnyi Dvor (Printing Court) Typography
- Petroraikombinat Typolithography Workshop, Leningrad
- Pravda Vostoka Typography Workshop, Tashkent
- Printer not indicated
- Printing plant named for Dunaev
- Printing Plant Stalinabad, [Dushanbe, Tajikistan]
- R
- R. Barnik Artistic Lithography, Ltd., Berlin
- R. Bеkman Lithography, Moscow
- Rabochaia Gazeta (Workers' Newspaper) Typography, Moscow
- Red Way, Kiev
- Redizdat (Editorial and Publishing Department)
- Russian Partnership, Moscow
- S
- Sotsialistichna Kharkivshchina Publishing, Typography Workshop
- Sovkino (Soviet Cinema) Lithography
- Stafford and Company Ltd., Netherfield (Nottingham, England)
- State Chromolithography Workshop Balkan, Sofia
- State Chromolithography Workshop, Tver
- State Chromolithography, Kishinev
- State Lithography Workshop named for M. Tomskii, Leningrad
- State Typography Workshop named for Evgenii Sokolov, Petrograd (formerly A.F. Marks'')
- State Typography Workshop No. 2, Tambov
- Sverdlosk Chromolithography Workshop
- Szikra (Spark) Printing House, Budapest
- T
- Tatpoligraf, Kazan
- Transpechat' of NKPS (People's Commissariat of Transportation and Communication)
- Transzheldorizdat (All-Union Publishing and Printing Association of Railway Transport)
- Trud i Tvorchestvo Typolithography Workshop, Moscow
- Trudovoi Lithography Workshop, Leningrad
- Tsentrizdat (Central Publishing House of the Peoples of the USSR)
- Tsentropechat Black Sea Regional Department, Novorossiisk
- Typography Workshop named for I.V. Stalin of "Pravda" Newspaper, Moscow
- Typography Workshop named for Ivan Fedorov, Leningrad
- Typography Workshop No. 2, Simbrisk
- Typography Workshop of Zoria Publishing House, Dnepropetrovsk
- Typolithography Workshop named for V.V. Vorovskii, Moscow
- Typolithography Workshop of Geokartprom V.T.U. (Millitary Topographic Directorate)
- Typolithography Workshop of Gor'kovskaia Pravda Publishing House
- Typolithography Workshop of the Priboi Publishing House, Leningrad
- U
- Ukrpoligrafizdat Book Manufacturing Plant named for Frunze
- Universal Publishing GmbH Offset Printing Plant, Leipzig
- UPP DVOU (Printing Industry Management/United State Publishing Association of Ukraine)
- Uzpoligraf Typolithography, Uzbekistan
- V
- VAPP Cartographic Institute
- VAPP Typography, Riga
- VEB (People's Enterprise) Printer, [East Germany]
- Vkutemas (Higher Art and Technical Studios) Lithography Workshop
- VSNKh (Supreme Soviet of the National Economy) of Lithopoligraf Trust
- W
- Wehrmachtspropaganda im Oberkommando
- X
- XJSQ Lithography