5th State Typolithography Workshop, Moscow (formerly Russian Partnership)

5-я государственный типо-литография, (бывш. Русское товарищество)

Located in the Chistye Prudy neighborhood at 14 Myl'nikov Lane (a.k.a. Zhukovskii Street); the 5th State Typolithography Workshop was the Russian Partnership prior to its nationalization. Around 1922 the printer was placed under the Mospoligraf printing trust during a period of consolidation that occurred in the Moscow printing industry. With a staff of over two thousand, Mospoligraf oversaw a myriad of printers under local sections. Subsequently, Mospoligraf was the second-largest printing trust in Moscow outside of Mospechat’ trust. The 5th State Typolithography is not to be confused with the 5th Typography Workshop that was located in Moscow during the same period.

PP 034: 1916, 1917, 1918… [years indicating the increasing numbers of deserters] – What used to happen to deserters. Breaking the vicious circle. [Partial translation]

PP 042: October 25, 1917 -- November 7, 1920
Farmer, you used to work for a landlord!
Now the land belongs to the working people!
All Power to the Soviets!
[Partial translation]

PP 358: The work of the back line is the victory of the front line. "Our country won a victory over Wrangel not only by the courage of the Red soldiers but by the work of the Red back lines." [Partial translation]

PP 677: Everything for the miner!
Our bayonet is as sharp as it used to be.
The worker’s pick is ready.
The Red Army man and the miner
–base of the flaming soviets.
The vermin ran away squealing
And kept running faster and faster.
Now it’s time to stick the pick
Into the black rock of the Donbass.
[Partial translation]

PP 748: Manifest. All power to landlords and capitalists!!! For workers and peasants – the lash!!!

PP 784: The labor deserter that repented.
Published in newspapers of the Ural Region is a testimonial letter from a labor deserter, Simion Loshkin, citizen of the village of Liudovnichi.
[Partial translation]

PP 914: To the Aid of Pans! [Polish landlords] The Last Reserves of Marshal Foch

PP 916: [Left side] Universal Military Training, 1918 -- [Right side] Universal Military Training, 1919–1920

PP 956: Everything you give is mended for the Red Army

PP 998: Where Wrangel’ misplaces the bread

PP 1113: Work conditions at the Donbas mine.
[Partial translation]

PP 1173: Song of Labor
[Partial translation]

Sources & Citations

Watkin, D. (2015). A history of Western architecture. London: Laurence King Publishing. (p. 647, Konstantin Melnikov)
Shkol'nik, Iu. K. (2010). Moskva stolitsa rossii istoria i sovremennost’. Moskva: Eksmo. (No. 8 Zhukovskii Street and Nikolai Zhukovskii house)
Koenker, D. (2005). Republic of labor: Russian printers and Soviet socialism, 1918-1930. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. (p. 111, Mospoligraf formation)
Uferev, O. V., et al. (1991). Business-map Russia: Industry. Moscow: NPO Nauka. (Zhukovskii Street location)
Adariukov, V. IA. (1925). Komissiia po izucheniiu iskusstva knigi pri gosudarstvennom izdayel'stve: Bibliografiiia russkikh tipografskikh shriftov. 146 Tablitsami. Moskva: Gosudarsvennoe Izdatel’stvo. (p. 49, address of Russian Partnership cited)
Mmsk.ru (building No. 14 Russian Partnership of Printing and Publishing designed by architect P.A. Ushakov)
encyclopedia.com (bio, Nikolai Yegorovich Zhukovskii)