PP 773 | Poster Plakat

Carry your paper money to the Potrebilovka Cooperative. And you will save money and will help us finance the purchase of merchandise. [Partial translation]

**Poster Number:** PP 773

**Category:** Economy

**Poster Notes:** A *potrebilovka* was a consumer society store that existed in the USSR during the 1920s and 1930s.

**Media Size:** 32х24

**Poster Type:** Lithograph

**Publishing Date:** c.1927

**Print Run:** 10,000

**Glavlit Directory Number:** 62951

**Catalog Notes:** PP 773 Economy b

Artist: Biriukov, V. — Бирюков, В.

Printer: 2nd Book Printing Plant of Sevkravkraisoiuz, Rostov-on-Don — 2-е издание книжной базы Севкавкрайсоюза, Ростов-Дон

Located at 59 Budenovskii Street in the city of Rostov-on-Don, the 2nd Book Printing Plant was a contract printer for Sevkravkraisoiuz (North-Caucasus Regional Union of Consumer Societies). According to a 1919 commerce report on the Soviet Union, there were "...3,000 consumers' societies in [the] North Caucasus comprising 1,800,000 individual members...most important of which, practically uniting all the others, is the Rostof-on-Don [sic] Regional Union."

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Carry your paper money to the Potrebilovka Cooperative. And you will save money and will help us finance the purchase of merchandise. [Partial translation]