PP 692 | Poster Plakat

Lenin.

**Poster Number:** PP 692

**Category:** Lenin

**Poster Notes:** This poster had a black border (here it is trimmed) and was used as a commemorative following the death of Vladimir Lenin in 1924.

**Media Size:** 18x14

**Poster Type:** Lithograph

**Publishing Date:** 1927

**Technical Information on Poster:** No. 287 2682; Price 5 kopeks

**Print Run:** 2,000

**Glavlit Directory Number:** A-6945

**Catalog Notes:** PP 692 Lenin

Artist: Illegible Name — Неразборчивое Имя

Printer: Typolithography of Geokartprom of the V.T.U. (Military Topographic Directorate of the Soviet Army), Moscow — Типо-Литография Геокартпрома В.Т.У. (Военно-топографическое управление), Москва

In 1918, the Soviets nationalized the Moscow printing works of brothers Wilhelm Theodor Mehnert and Herman Julius Mehnert at 9 Bol'shaia Polianka (later named Soviet Street). The building housing the printer was first occupied by the Julius Kirsten printing firm. Upon its nationalization, the Soviets placed Mehnert printing under Geokartprom, a State-owed trust of the Commissariat of Defense that centralized government-mapping projects. Geokartprom printed atlases and maps solely for military and government use. While it did map ...

Lenin.