PP 542 | Poster Plakat

March forward, Komsomol generation, joke and sing so that a smile will bloom! We overcome space and time, We – who are the young owners of the earth. [Partial translation]

**Poster Number:** PP 542

**Category:** Military

**Poster Notes:** First of 10 verses on the poster are from the title song "March of the Happy-Go-Lucky Guys" from the 1934 Soviet film, “Happy-Go-Lucky Guys"; [On sailor’s cap] Red Flag Baltic Fleet.

**Media Size:** 25x34

**Poster Type:** Offset

**Publishing Date:** 1938

**Editorial Information:** Editor M. Ioffe; Technical Editor [ilegible]…abanov

**Technical Information on Poster:** Iskusstvo No. 9870; Submitted for production August 23, 1938; Approved for printing August 27, 1938; Page format 80 x 90; Order No. 1550; Price 10 kopeks

**Print Run:** 100,000

**Glavlit Directory Number:** B-50516

**Sources & Citation:** Von Geldern, J., & Stites, R. (2007). *Mass culture in Soviet Russia: Tales, poems, songs, movies, plays, and folklore, 1917-1953.* Bloomington: Indiana University Press. (Vasilii Lebedev-Kumach and Isaac Dunaevsky cited, p. 234)

**Catalog Notes:** PP 542 Military b

Artist: Mel'nikova, E. — Мельникова, Елена Константиновна

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...

March forward, Komsomol generation, joke and sing so that a smile will bloom! We overcome space and time, We – who are the young owners of the earth. [Partial translation]