PP 796 | Poster Plakat

Warmest proletarian greetings to the Chelyuskin expedition and to the heroic pilots who rescued them!

**Poster Number:** PP 796

**Category:** Events

**Poster Notes:** The SS Chelyuskin was caught in ice fields near Kolyuchin Island in the Chukchi Sea near the Bearing Straights. The crew escaped by building rafts taking them to solid ice until they were rescued by Soviet pilots. Another fifty-three crew had to walk over 300 miles to reach final safety. The pilots of the operations were the first to receive the highest title of Hero of the Soviet Union.

**Media Size:** 32.5x24

**Poster Type:** Lithograph and Offset

**Publishing Date:** 1934

**Catalog Notes:** PP 796 Events b

Artist: Sokolov-Skalia (Sokolov), Pavel Petrovich — Соколов-Скаля (Соколов), Павел Петрович

In his youth, Pavel Petrovich Sokolov-Skalia worked as an apprentice in the studio of Il’ia Mashkov, one of Imperial Russia's modern masters. He continued his education at VKhUTEMAS (Higher Art and Technical Studios) and he later became a founding member of the avant-garde collective Bytie (Being). When the group dissolved around 1926, he joined the A.Kh.R. (Association of Artists of the Revolution) and he served as one of its lead teachers. Sokolov-Skalia also ta...

Warmest proletarian greetings to the Chelyuskin expedition and to the heroic pilots who rescued them!