Typolithography Workshop named for V.V. Vorovskii, Moscow

Типо-литография им. Воровского, Москва

The Typolithography Workshop named for V.V. Vorovskii was named in honor of Vatslav Vatslavovich Vorovskii (1871-1923) who was the head of Gosizdat (State Publishing House) from 1919 to 1920. After leaving Gosizdat, Vorovskii served as a diplomat for the Soviet Union. In 1923, he was assassinated in Lausanne, Switzerland. The printing house bearing his name was located in Moscow at 18 Dzerzhinskii Street, a thoroughfare that later was named Bolshaia Lubianka.

PP 035: As a response to attackers, let’s strengthen the capacity of chemical defense protection of the Soviet Union. The chemical industry is the foundation of chemical protection defense.

PP 158: Forward to new victories under the flag of the great party of Lenin-Stalin!
[Partial translation]

PP 476: "The victorious growth of Socialism in the USSR will find its expression in the great growth of socialist based national cultures." (Molotov)

PP 775: Member of the Agricultural Credit Association!
Check for yourself:
Have you repaid your borrowings on time?
Have you paid your initial deposit in full?
[Partial translation]

Sources & Citations

Koenker, D. (2005). Republic of labor: Russian printers and Soviet socialism, 1918-1930. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. (V.V. Vorovskii at Gosizat, cited)
Kenez, P. (1986). The birth of the propaganda state: Soviet methods of mass mobilization, 1917-1929. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press. (p. 100, formation of Gosizdat and V.V. Vorovskii as director from 1919 to 1920)
spartacus-educational.com/Vatslav_Vorovsky.htm (bio)