PP 312 | Poster Plakat

Olympic Games in Moscow 1980

**Poster Number:** PP 312

**Category:** Events

**Poster Notes:** (On flags in English Russian and French) Friendship, Peace, Sport; Moscow won the bid for the 22nd Olympics in 1974. In the summer of 1980, the games were held in Moscow and in other locations around the USSR in one of the most politicized Olympics ever held due to the number of countries that boycotted in protest of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.

**Media Size:** 38.5x26

**Poster Type:** Offset

**Publishing Date:** 1979

**Editorial Information:** Editor S. I. Il’ina; Technical Editor V. Iu. Nikitina.

**Technical Information on Poster:** Approved for printing December 26, 1978; Publication No. 13a-197; Order No. 9-1396; Format 60 x 90; Volume 1 sheet of paper; 1 conditional sheet of paper; Offset printing offset paper; Price 15 kopeks. A 80202-188 BZ-38-8-79/088(02)-79

**Print Run:** 100,000

**Glavlit Directory Number:** A-15295

**Sources & Citation:** Sarantakes, N. E. (2011). *Dropping the torch: Jimmy Carter, the Olympic boycott, and the Cold War.* Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

**Catalog Notes:** PP 312 Events b

Artist: Abezgus, Evgenii Vladimirovich — Абезгус, Евгений Владимирович

Evgenii Vladimirovich Abezgus graduated from the Moscow State Art School. In 1961 he began his lifelong career in poster design by taking a position with Izogiz State Publishing. Additionally, he designed posters for "Soviet Artist", "Kolos", "Sanprosvet" and "Planet" publishing houses in the Soviet Union. In 1963 he was awarded a prize by the Union of Artists of the USSR at the Second All-Union Exhibition of the Poster. Throughout ...

Olympic Games in Moscow 1980