PP 027 | Poster Plakat

I swear to study with all my might the arts of war, to defend with all my power military and public property, and to be loyal to my last breath to my nation, to the Soviet Motherland and the Worker-Farmer Government.

**Poster Number:** PP 027

**Category:** Military

**Media Size:** 30.5x21.5

**Poster Type:** Lithograph and Offset

**Publishing Date:** c.1941

**Technical Information on Poster:** Order No. 492. NKMP YSSR. UPT. (People's Commissariat of Local Industry Ukrainian SSR. [UPT = Department of Government Transport?])

**Print Run:** 5,000

**Glavlit Directory Number:** KV11287.

**Catalog Notes:** PP 027 Military

Artist: Grinets', Dmitro Mitrofanovich — Гринець, Дмитро Митрофанович

Printer: Chromolit Lithography Workshop named for Comrade Dzerzhinskii, Kharkov — Хромолит Типо-литография имени т. Дзержинского, Харьков

Located in Kharkov in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic; the Chromolit Lithography was named in honor of Feliks Edmundovich Dzerzhinskii (1877-1926) who was head of the All-Russian Extraordinary Commission (VChK) internal police who were commonly referred to as the “Cheka”. During its history, the printer was also named the 1st Chromolit Lithography and it was overseen by the printing trust UPKPT (Management of Production and Technical Equipment).

I swear to study with all my might the arts of war, to defend with all my power military and public property, and to be loyal to my last breath to my nation, to the Soviet Motherland and the Worker-Farmer Government.