PP 103 | Poster Plakat

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**Poster Number:** PP 103

**Category:** Workers

**Poster Notes:** Artist uses the same pair of workers in the illustration for PP 104-- a poster designed by artists Sakharov and Kubginov.

**Media Size:** 37x26

**Poster Type:** Offset

**Publishing Date:** 1951

**Editorial Information:** Editor Vorontsov

**Technical Information on Poster:** [Approved] November 11, 1950; Publication No. 9251; Volume 1 sheet of paper; Order No. 8800; Price 1 ruble

**Print Run:** 100,000

**Glavlit Directory Number:** A09010

**Catalog Notes:** PP 103 Workers b; Sister Poster PP 104

Artist: Smoliak, Nikolai Petrovich — Смоляк, Николай Петрович

Printer: 1st Exemplary Typography Workshop named for A. A. Zhdanov, Moscow — 1-я Образцовая типография им. А.А. Жданова

The 1st Exemplary Typography Workshop was named in honor of Andrei Alexandrovich Zhdanov (1896-1948), a Soviet military leader and a senior member of the Politburo who died in 1948. Reportedly, Andrei Zhdanov controlled the atomic espionage division of the USSR and he was Josef Stalin's closest confidant. Historically, the 1st Exemplary Typography Workshop began as the Sharapov-Sytin Partnerhip, a printing workshop formed before the Russian Revolution. Ivan Dmitrievich Sytin (1851-1934) was the son of a peasant. ...

Let’s reclaim land from the desert!