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Laughter Magazine. Price 15 kopeks.

Poster Number: PP 1252
Poster Notes: Smekhach (Laughter) was a weekly illustrated satirical magazine published in Moscow and Leningrad from February 1924 to December 1928. Its average length was 16 pages and it contained illustrations. Gudok (Whistle) newspaper served as the publisher.
Media Size: 11x13
Poster Type: Lithograph and Offset
Publishing Date: c. 1928
Glavlit Directory Number: 86880
Sources & Citation: cartoonia.ru (Смехач, журнал, Москва – Ленинград, СССР)
Catalog Notes: Education & Literacy
Artist: Artist Unknown — неизвестный художник
The artist's name on the poster is not indicated. By assigning Artist Unknown to a poster it also could mean the artist used a chop mark whereby no signature is seen thus rendering the artist's identity anonymous.
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Printer: Mospoligraf (Moscow Polygraphic), Moscow — Мосполиграф, Москва
Mospoligraf was a state-owned printing trust located in Moscow. When the Soviet Union formulated a plan in 1921 to consolidate the nation’s largest and best printing operators into state-owned trusts; Mospoligraf was organized in 1922 to carry out consolidation of the Moscow printing industry. With a staff of over two thousand, Mospoligraf was the second-largest printing trust organized in Moscow outside of the Mospechat’ trust, and it oversaw a myriad of houses under local printing sections such...
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Publisher: Gudok Publishing House, Moscow — Гудок Издательство, Москва
Gudok (whistle) was the name given to the railway industry newspaper in the Soviet Union. The newspaper's printing and publishing house was located in Moscow at 7 Stankevich Street (Voznesenskii Lane), a street named after Alexander Stankevich (1821-1912), Russian writer, biographer and publisher. From the end of the nineteenth century until 1918, the building on Stankevich Street held the editorial offices of the liberal newspaper "Russian News" (Russkie vedomosti). The newspaper was closed by the ...
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