The role of the printer in the Soviet Union was critical to poster output. Millions of posters were produced by the Soviet Union from 1917 to 1991. After the artist produced a maquette (a poster’s preliminary sketch), it was sent to the publisher and censorship bureau for approval. If approved, it was created into a full-sized poster and the printer prepared the design for processing.
With over 1,000 posters in the Poster Plakat Collection, the history of the Soviet publishing and printing sectors literally can be visualized on this website. Use the searchable index below to locate each printer in the Collection. Each name links to the poster.
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- 12th Lithography…[illegible data]
- 15th Iskra Revolutsii Typography of Glavpoligrafizdat, Moscow
- 15th Iskra Revolutsii Typography of Soiuzpoligrafprom of Glavizdat, Moscow
- 15th Iskra Revolutsii Typography, Moscow
- 15th State Typography Workshop
- 17th Poligrafkiniga Trust Typo-lithography Workshop, Moscow
- 1st Book Printer of the Kiev-Druk Trust, [Ukraine]
- 1st Chromolit Workshop named for Dzerzhinskii, Kharkov
- 1st Exemplary Gosizdat Typolithography Workshop, Moscow
- 1st Exemplary Ogiz Typolithography Workshop, Moscow
- 1st Exemplary Typography Workshop named for A. A. Zhdanov, Moscow
- 1st Exemplary Typography Workshop of the Ogiz Poligrafkniga Syndicate, Moscow
- 1st Khabarovsk Lithography Book Publishing
- 1st Lithography Workshop of the Latvian Poligraf Association, Riga [Lativa]
- 1st Lithography Workshop of the Latvian Poligraf Trust, Riga [Lativa]
- 1st Lithography Workshop of the Polygraphic Department of K-ChSNKh
- 1st Offset Printing Shop Press [of the] Committee of Ministries of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic
- 1st Offset Printing Shop of the Lensovnarkoz, Leningrad
- 1st Republic Chromolit, UPKPT
- 1st Shanghai Printing Plant, [China]
- 1st Soviet Typography Workshop
- 1st State Cartographic Institution, Petrograd
- 1st State Lithography, Leningrad
- 1st State Printshop named for Georgi Dimitrov, Sofia, [Bulgaria]
- 1st State Typo-lithography Workshop, Piatnitskoe Department, Moscow
- 1st Ural State Lithography Workshop, Ekaterinburg
- 2
- 20th State Typolithography Workshop, Moscow
- 22nd Department of Don Poligraf, Rostov-on-Don
- 24th Lithography Workshop by the Council of Ministries of the USSR, Leningrad
- 24th Lithography Workshop of Glavpoligrafizdat, Leningrad
- 24th Lithography Workshop of Ogiz RSFSR, Leningrad
- 2nd Book Printing House of Sevkravkraisoiuz (North-Caucasus Regional Union of Consumer Societies)
- 2nd Soviet Photo-Lithography Workshop, Kiev
- 2nd Soviet Photo-Lithography Workshop, Kiev, 4 Pushkin Street
- 2nd Soviet Printing Office, Kiev
- 2nd Soviet Typography Workshop
- 2nd State Graznaia Lithography Workshop
- 2nd State Typography Lithography Workshop, Moscow
- 2nd State Typography Workshop, Kazan'
- 2nd State Typography Workshop, Petrograd, 8 Griaznaia Street [Yablochkova Street]
- 2nd Typography Workshop, Kiev
- 3
- 3rd Krasnii Proletarii Book Printing Plant, Moscow
- 3rd Krasnii Proletarii Typography Workshop of Glavpoligrafizdat, Moscow
- 3rd Krasnii Proletarii Typography Workshop of Glavpoligrafprom, Moscow
- 3rd Krasnii Proletarii Typography Workshop of Soiuzpoligrafprom, Moscow
- 3rd Krasnii Proletarii Typography Workshop of the Poligrafkiniga Trust of Ogiz, Kalinin
- 3rd Krasnii Proletarii Typography Workshop of the Poligrafkiniga Trust of Ogiz, Moscow
- 3rd Krasnii Proletarii Typography Workshop of the Poligrafkiniga Trust, Moscow
- 3rd Krasnii Proletarii Typography Workshop, Moscow
- 3rd Soviet Typo-lithography Workshop, Zdam. Pris. Mest.
- 3rd Soviet Typography Workshop, Poligraf Department
- 3rd Soviet Typography Workshop, Poltava
- 3rd State Typolithography Workshop, Moscow. Former proprietor Kushnerev
- 4
- 4th Poligraphic Plant named for Lenin, Kiev, 2 Kalinin Square
- 4th Typolithography Workshop, [Tashkent]
- 4th Typolithography [of the] Uzbek Lithography Publishing House of the Council of Ministers of the Uzbek SSR
- 5
- 5th Lithography Workshop of Mosoblpoligraf
- 5th Lithography Workshop of Mosoblpoligraf, Moscow
- 5th State Typolithography Workshop, Moscow
- 5th Typolithography Workshop, Khabarovsk
- 6
- 6th Print Shop of UPP DVOU, Kiev
- 7
- 7th Typography Workshop of Mospoligraf
- 7th Typography Workshop of UVI/UMVI
- 7th Typography… [illegible data]
- 9
- 9th Gubpoligraf Department, [Saratov]
- A
- A.F. Marks Lithography Workshop
- A.I. Mamontov Typography Partnership, Moscow
- Atlas Chromolithography Workshop, Lvov [Lviv, Ukraine]
- Azpoligraftrust, Azerbaijan
- B
- Berlin Printing House
- Book Printer of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (Bolshevik), Ukraine
- Book Printing Factory of the Publishing House of the Communist Party (Bolshevik), Ukraine
- Bumpoligraftrust Viatka, [Kirov, Ukraine]
- C
- Card Game Factory and Printing House, [Hungary]
- Carl Werner Offset Printer, Germany
- Cartography Workshop of KazNKZ (Kazakh People's Commissariat)
- Chromolit Lithography Workshop, Leningrad
- Chromolit Ukranian Printing Union named for Dzerzhinskii, Kharkov
- Chromolithography Workshop named for Dzerzhinskii, Kharkov
- Chromolithography named for Il'ich, Rostov-On-Don
- Communist Print Workshop, Tallinn
- Cootypographie Typography Workshop, France
- Council Printing KWU (Municipal economic enterprise) Dresden
- Creative Artists Brotherhood "Soviet Graphic", Moscow
- D
- DNTVU Typo-litho-zincography, Kharkov
- DVOU Ukrknigotsentr
- Dekal'komania Lithography Workshop
- Detgiz Children's State Book Printing Plant
- Dmit''r Blagoev DPK, [Bulgaria]
- Dmitrov Offset Printing Plant of Sovetskaia Rossiia Publishing House
- E
- EZGB (Expedition of Preparation of State Securities), Irkutsk
- Energia Typography Workshop, Kharkov
- Estonian State Press, [Estonia]
- F
- Fortschritt (Progress) Printers, Erfurt [East Germany]
- G
- GIZ Lithography
- GSNKh (Provincial Council of National Economy) October Typography Workshop, 61 Respublikanskaia Street, Yaroslavl’.
- GSNKh Typo-lithography Workshop No. 2
- Globus Printing House, Budapest; Szikra (Spark) Printing House
- Gosplanizdat, Moscow
- Goznak Printing Plant, Moscow
- Graphic Art Printing Plant named for V.M. Molotov, Moscow
- Gudok Typography Workshop, Moscow
- H
- Hansa Printing and Publishing, Berlin
- 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
- Illegible Printer Name
- Iosif Korot' Typolithography Workshop, Vladivostok
- Iskra Revolutsii Typography Workshop, Moscow
- Iskusstvo Publishing House Lithography Workshop, Moscow
- Izostat Institute Typolithography Workshop, Moscow
- Izvestia
- K
- Kalinin City Poligrafkombinat
- Kalinin City Poligrafkombinat of Glavpoligrafprom
- Kalinin City Poligrafkombinat of Soiuzpoligrafprom
- Kalinin Sovnarkhoz RSFSR, Kalinin
- Kishinev City Poligrafkombinat
- Kiva-Marks" P.G. Lithograph
- Knigospilka Lithography, Kharkov
- Kommunar Publishing House Typography Workshop, Tula
- Kommunar Publishing House Typography Workshop, Tula, 150 F. Engels Street
- Krasnii Oktiabr' Confectionary Plant Lithography Workshop, [Moscow]
- Krasnii Proletarii Typography
- Krasnii Proletarii, Moscow
- Krasnoe Znamia Typography Workshop, Moscow
- Krasnoiarsk Typo-lithography Workshop [Krasnoiarsk]
- L
- LPT Typography, Riga
- LRTPP Typography, Riga
- LT UN-9, Leningrad
- Leningrad Offset Printing Plant
- Leningrad Union of Soviet Artists (LOSSKh)
- Lenizdat Typography Workshop named after Volodarskii, [Leningrad], 57 Fontanka Embankment
- Lenoblastlit
- Lenprompechat'soiuz Lithography Chromolit, Leningrad, Demidov Lane
- Lille Publishing and Printing Company, France
- Lithograph of Gruzpoligraph Trust of the NKLP
- Lithographer [of the] Ukrainian SSR People's Commissariat of Education (Narkompros) and All-Ukrainian Academy of Sciences (VUAN), Kiev Monastery District
- Lithography No.1, Tashkent, [Uzbekistan]
- Lithography Workshop of M.G. Ravitskii, Kharkov
- Lithography Workshop of the Central Publishing House, Moscow
- Lithography Workshop of the Publishing House of the Penza Region, [Penza]
- M
- M. I. Levin Chromolithography and Typography, Kharkov [Ukraine]
- M.Z. Izenberg Lithography, Ekaterinoslav, [Ukraine]
- MGSNKh Typo-lithography Workshop, Moscow
- MSNKh 16th State Publishing Typography Workshop, Moscow
- MSNKh 1st Exemplary Printing, Moscow
- Main Directorate of Typography, Riga
- May Fine Art Printing and Publishing A.G., Dresden
- Molddruk Printing House, [Moldavia]
- Moscow Offset Printing Plant
- Moscow Typolithography Workshop No. 5
- Moskust Lithography
- Mosoblpoligraf 12th Lithography Workshop, Moscow
- Mosoblpoligraf Lithography Workshop, Moscow
- Mospoligraf 15th Lithography Workshop, Moscow
- Mospoligraf Lithography Workshop, Moscow
- Mospoligraf Typo-lithography Lithography Workshop, Rabochee Delo
- N
- NKMP Typolithography Workshop, North Ossetian ASSR
- NKMP Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic Lithography Workshop, Ukraine
- NKMP Uzpoligrafkombinat Lithography Workshop, Uzbekistan
- Narkomvoen, Ukraine
- None indicated
- O
- OSVOD (Society for Promotion of Development of Water Transport and Protection of the Life of Persons on Waterways of the USSR)
- October Graphics Manufacturer, Tallinn, [Estonia]
- Odessa Region Department of Printing
- Offset Printing House, Budapest
- Offset Printing House, [Budapest]
- Offset Printing Plant of the UVI MO
- Offset printing plant of Rosglavpoligrafprom, Moscow
- Orbis 3, [Prague, Czechoslovakia]
- P
- Partvidav Book Printing Plant of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (Bolshevik) Ukraine
- Pechatnik (Printer) Typolithography Workshop, Moscow
- Pechatnyi Dvor (Printing Court) Typography
- Pending translation
- Pending translation poster is in Azerbaijani, Baku, 3 Eli Bairamov Street
- Pending translation poster is in Azeri
- Pending translation poster is in Chinese
- Pending translation poster is in Georgian
- People’s Printing Plant, Tianjin, China
- Petroraikombinat Typolithography Workshop, Leningrad
- Piatnik Ltd., Budapest
- Poligraftrust typo-photo-zinc-lithography Workshop, Novosibirsk
- Political Department of the Front Beyond the Caucasus
- Politotdel of P.U.R. Lithography Workshop
- Pravda Vostoka Typography Workshop, Tashkent
- Printed in Sofia, [Bulgaria]
- Printing Plant Stalinabad, [Dushanbe,Tajikistan]
- Printing plant named for Dunaev
- Propaganda Squadron, Kharkov
- R
- R. Barnik Artistic Lithography, Ltd., Berlin
- R. Bеkman Lithography, Moscow
- Rabochaia Gazeta (Worker's Newspaper) Typography Workshop. Moscow, 49 Sushchovskii Rampart
- Rabochaia Gazeta (Worker's Newspaper) Typography Workshop. Moscow, 63 Sushchovskii Rampart
- Rabochee Delo Typography–Lithography and Offset Print Workshop, Moscow
- Redizdat, Kiev
- Reklamfil'm
- Russian Partnership, Moscow
- S
- School of Book Production in Kiev named after L. Balabanov
- Sotsialistichna Kharkivshchina Publishing House Typography Workshop
- Sotsialistichna Kharkivshchina Publishing, Typography Workshop
- Soviet Tipo-Lithography, Novonikolaevsk [Novosibirsk], Siberia
- Sovkino (Soviet Cinema) Lithography
- Sovnarkoz Electro-typolithography Workshop
- Stafford and Company Limited [England]
- Stalinskaia Znamia Typography Workshop, Penza
- State Chromolithography Workshop Balkan, Sofia
- State Chromolithography Workshop, Tver
- State Lithography Workshop named for M. Tomskii, Leningrad
- State Typography Workshop No. 2, Tambov
- State Typography Workshop named for Evgenii Sokolov, Petrograd
- Sverdlosk Chromolithography Workshop
- Szikra (Spark) Joint Stock Company, Budapest
- Szikra (Spark) Printing House, Budapest
- Szikra (Spark) Printing House, Budapest National Enterprise
- Szikra (Spark) Printing, Budapest
- Szikra (Spark) Printing, National Enterprise, Budapest
- T
- Tatpoligraf, Kazan
- Transpechat NKPS 6th Typo-lithography Workshop, Moscow
- 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
- Typo-Lithography B. [Bolshevik?] [Military?] Expedition
- Typography Workshop Named for [illegible data]
- Typography Workshop No. 2, Simbrisk
- Typography Workshop named for I.V. Stalin of "Pravda" Newspaper, Moscow
- Typography Workshop named for Ivan Fedorov, Leningrad
- Typography Workshop of "Zoria" Publishing House, Dnepropetrovsk, 7 Zhurnalistov Street
- Typography Workshop of Zoria Publishing House, Dnepropetrovsk
- Typolithography Workshop No. 2 of the Uzbek Poligraphic Union
- Typolithography Workshop named for V.V. Vorovskii, Moscow
- Typolithography Workshop of Gor'kovskaia Pravda Publishing House
- Typolithography Workshop of Krymizdat, Simferopol' [Ukraine]
- Typolithography Workshop of OIK Samarkand, [Uzbekistan]
- Typolithography Workshop of the Military Academy of the RKKA named for M.V. Frunze, Moscow
- Typolithography Workshop of the Priboi Publishing House, Leningrad
- Typolithography of the Gubsovnarkhoz, Moskovsk 27
- Typolithography workshop of the V.T.U. [Military Topographic Directorate] named for Dunaev, Moscow
- U
- UNPK (Educational and Scientific Pedagogical Complex) Workshop named for Skripnik
- USSR Goskomizdata [State Committee on Publishing], Leningrad, 3 Mir Street
- Ukrpoligrafizdat Book Manufacturing Plant named for Frunze
- Umid Lithography Partnership, [Kazan]
- Universal Publishing GmbH Offset Printing Plant, Leipzig
- Uzpoligraf Typo-lithography No. 2, Uzbekistan
- V
- VAPP Cartographic Institute
- VAPP Typography, Riga
- VEB Graphic Workshop, Leipzig
- VEB Rotogravure Press, Halle
- VSNKh (Supreme Soviet of the National Economy) Lithopoligraf Syndicate
- Vkutemas Lithography Workshop
- Volga Typo-lithography Workshop
- Vostok (East) Kazan Kombinat Publishing and Printing, House 4