PP 677 | Poster Plakat

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] — 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]

**Poster Number:** PP 677

**Category:** Industry

**Poster Notes:** The Donbass (Donets Basin) was located in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions of modern Ukraine, an historical coal mining area.

**Media Size:** 20x13

**Poster Type:** Lithograph

**Publishing Date:** c.1920

**Technical Information on Poster:** RVTs (Passed by Military Censor)

**Print Run:** 25,000

**Sources & Citation:** Soviet Posters of the era of the Civil War 1918-1921 by B. S. Butnik-Siverskii (1960), pages 347-348, poster 2057

**Catalog Notes:** PP 677 Industry

Artist: Slavinskii, N. (attributed to) — Славинский, Н.

Printer: 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 ...

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Publisher: Glavkomtrud and Narkomtrud (Main Committee on Universal Compulsory Labor and Public Commissariat of Labor) — Главкомтруда и Наркомтруда

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