PP 908 | Poster Plakat

USSR Gosstrakh [State Insurance Company] Have you insured your life with Gosstrakh? [Partial translation]

**Poster Number:** PP 908

**Category:** Economy

**Poster Notes:** Founded in 1921, Gosstrakh (*Gosudarstvennoe strakhovanie v SSSR*) was the state insurance of the USSR. Its counterpart was Ingosstrakh (foreign state insurance) that offered coverage to trade organizations and tourists.

**Media Size:** 28x20

**Poster Type:** Lithograph

**Publishing Date:** 1944

**Technical Information on Poster:** FG August 23, 1944; NKMP Order 476, 477.

**Print Run:** 5,000

**Sources & Citation:** Borscheid, P., Haueter, N. V. (2012). *World insurance: The evolution of a global risk network.* Oxford: Oxford University Press. (P. 228, Gosstrakh and Ingosstrakh information); Simon, G. (1991). *Nationalism and policy toward the nationalities in the Soviet Union: from totalitarian dictatorship to post-Stalinist society.* Boulder: Westview Press. (Gosstrakh formation cited)

**Catalog Notes:** Economy b

Artist: Illegible Name — Неразборчивое Имя

Printer: Azpoligraftrust, Azerbaijan — Азполиграфтрест, Азербайджан

The Azpoligraftrust (Azerbaijan Printing Trust) was formed in 1923 to consolidate the printing industry in Azerbaijan following that territory's incorporation into the USSR as a republic. The headquarters of Azpoligraftrust was located in Baku, the capital of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic.

USSR Gosstrakh [State Insurance Company] Have you insured your life with Gosstrakh? [Partial translation]