PP 496 | Poster Plakat

Let’s sow our native fields gloriously!

**Poster Number:** PP 496

**Category:** Agriculture

**Poster Notes:** The farmer depicted is likely a war veteran as he is wearing a military issue *telogreika* jacket; the tractor is a Stalinets model 65 with a modified cabin. The Stalinets was built at the Chelyabinsk Tractor Factory; [On the book it reads] *Plan for spring sowing 1946 Luch* [Beam of Light] *Collective Farm.*

**Media Size:** 37.5x27

**Poster Type:** Lithograph and Offset

**Publishing Date:** 1946

**Editorial Information:** Editor P. Piskunov

**Technical Information on Poster:** [Approved] March 1, 1946; Publication No. 6977; Volume 1 sheet of paper; L.M. 309; Price 1 ruble

**Print Run:** 100,000

**Glavlit Directory Number:** A 03567

**Catalog Notes:** PP 496 Agriculture

Artist: Alferov, Iurii Vasilievich — Алферов Юрий Васильевич

There is little published information available on the artist Iurii Vasilievich Alferov. From the 1930s to the 1940s, he designed posters for the publishing houses Izogiz (Fine Arts Publishing) and Iskusstvo (Art). Some of the poster titles Alferov designed are: “All bees for red clover! Bees increase the yield of red clover seeds by 2 to 3 times” (1932); “Cultivated hayfields for socialist animal husbandry” (1935); “’Increase annual grain production in the near future to 7–8 billion p...

Let’s sow our native fields gloriously!