Printers
Millions of posters were produced in the Soviet Union from 1917 to 1991 and the role of the printer was critical to poster output. After the artist produced a maquette (a preliminary sketch), this artistic example was sent to the publisher as well as to the censorship office for approval. If approved, the maquette was created into a full-sized poster and then the printer prepared the design for duplication.
With over 1,000 posters in the Poster Plakat Collection, the history of the Soviet Union's printing and publishing sectors is visualized on this website. Use the searchable index below to locate each printer in the Collection. Each printer name below links to the corresponding posters they produced.
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- 13th State Typography of Ogiz, Moscow
- 15th State Typography Workshop, Petrograd [St. Petersburg]
- 17th Typo-lithography Workshop of the Poligrafkniga Trust, Moscow
- 1st Electro-Typolithography Workshop of Sovnarkoz
- 1st Exemplary Gosizdat Typolithography Workshop, Moscow
- 1st Exemplary Ogiz RSFSR Typography Workshop of the Poligrafkniga Trust, Moscow
- 1st Exemplary Typography Workshop named for A. A. Zhdanov, Moscow
- 1st Lithography Polygraphic Dept. of K-ChSNKh (Kuban-Black Sea Regional Soviet of the Economy)
- 1st Lithography Workshop of the Latvian Poligraf Trust, Riga [Lativa]
- 1st Offset Printing Plant of UPP of the Lensovnarkhoz, Leningrad
- 1st Soviet Typography Workshop
- 1st State Cartographic Institution, Petrograd
- 1st State Lithography Workshop, Leningrad (formerly Kibbel)
- 1st State Typo-lithography Workshop, Moscow (formerly Sytin)
- 1st State Typography named for Georgi Dimitrov, Sofia, [Bulgaria]
- 1st Ural State Lithography Workshop, Ekaterinburg
2
- 20th State Typolithography Workshop, Moscow
- 24th Lithography Workshop of Glavpoligrafizdat, Leningrad
- 24th Lithography Workshop of the Council of Ministries of the USSR, Leningrad
- 24th Lithography Workshop of the Poligrafkniga Trust of Ogiz, Leningrad
- 2nd Book Printing Plant of Sevkravkraisoiuz, Rostov-on-Don
- 2nd Soviet Typography [Photo-Lithography] Workshop, Kiev
- 2nd State Artistic Lithography, Kharkov
- 2nd State Lithography Workshop, [Petrograd]
- 2nd State Typography Lithography Workshop, Moscow
- 2nd State Typography Workshop, Kazan'
3
- 3rd Krasnii Proletarii (Red Proletarian) Typography Workshop of Glavpoligrafizdat, Moscow
- 3rd Krasnii Proletarii (Red Proletarian) Typography Workshop of Glavpoligrafprom, Moscow
- 3rd Krasnii Proletarii (Red Proletarian) Typography Workshop of Poligrafkniga of Ogiz, Moscow
- 3rd Krasnii Proletarii (Red Proletarian) Typography Workshop of Poligrafkniga, Moscow
- 3rd Krasnii Proletarii (Red Proletarian) Typography Workshop of Soiuzpoligrafprom, Moscow
- 3rd Soviet Typography Workshop, Poltava
- 3rd State Typolithography Workshop, Moscow (formerly Kushnerev)
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- 5th State Typolithography Workshop, Moscow (formerly Russian Partnership)
- 5th Typolithography Workshop, Khabarovsk
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- 9th [Typolithopgraphy] Department of Gubpoligrafotdel (Provincial Department of Printing), [Saratov]
A
- A.F. Marks Lithography Workshop
- A.I. Mamontov Typography Partnership, Moscow
- AIZ (Association of Inventors) Lithography, Moscow
- Aufbau-Druckerei (Construction-Printing), Köthen
- Azerneshr Offset Printing, Baku
- Azpoligraftrust, Azerbaijan
B
- Bakpoligraf Trust Lithography, Baku [Azerbaijan]
- Berlin Printing House, East Germany
- Book Manufacturing Plant named for Frunze of Ukrpoligrafizdat, Kharkov
- Bumpoligraftrust (Paper and Printing Trust)
C
- Carl Werner Offset Printer, Reichenbach [Germany]
- Cartography Workshop of KazNKZ (Kazakh People's Commissariat)
- Chervonii Shliakh (Red Pathway) Lithography, Kiev
- Chromolit Lithography Workshop named for Comrade Dzerzhinskii, Kharkov
- Chromolit Lithography Workshop, Leningrad
- Chromolithography named for Il'ich of Oblpoligrafizdat, Rostov-On-Don
- Cootypographie Typography Workshop, France
D
- De Jong & Co., Hilversum [Holland]
- Detgiz (Children's State Book Printing)
- Dimitar Blagoev DPK (State Printing Plant), Sofia
- Dmitrov Offset Printing Plant [Moscow/Dmitrov]
- Doloi Negramotnost' (Down with Illiteracy)
E
G
- GIZ Lithography
- Gosgeolizdat (State Publishing House of Geological Literature) Cartographic Plant, [Leningrad]
- Gosizdat Musical Score Printing House, [Moscow]
- Goskomizdat USSR (State Committee on Publishing in the USSR), Leningrad
- Gosplanizdat, Moscow
- Goznak Printing Plant, Moscow
- Greif Graphischer Grossbetrieb, Berlin
- Gruzpoligraf Trust of the NKLP
- Gubsovnarkhoz (GSNKh) Typolithography
- Gudok Typography Workshop, Moscow
H
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- I.N. Kushnerev & Co. Typolithography, Moscow
- I.S. Fuki Typography-Lithography, Moscow
- Illegible Printer Name
- Iskra Revolutsii (Revolutionary Spark) Typography Workshop, Moscow
- Iskusstvo (Art Publishing House) Lithography Workshop, Moscow
- Izostat Institute Typolithography Workshop, Moscow
- Izvetsiia (News) All-Union Central Executive Committee Typography Offset Print Shop
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- Kalinin City Poligrafkombinat
- Kalinin City Poligrafkombinat of Glavpoligrafprom
- Kalinin City Poligrafkombinat of Soiuzpoligrafprom
- Kalinin City Poligrafkombinat of Sovnarkhoz of the RSFSR
- Kiev-Druk Trust Typography Printing House, Kiev
- Kishinev City Poligrafkombinat
- Knigospilka Lithography, Kharkov
- Kommunar Publishing House Typography Workshop, Tula
- Kommunist Printing House, Tallinn
- Krasnii Oktiabr' (Red October) Confectionery Plant, Moscow
- Krasnii Proletarii (Red Proletarian), Moscow
- Krasnoe Znamia (Red Banner) Typography Workshop, Moscow
- Krasnoiarsk Typo-lithography Workshop
- Krymizdat (Crimean Publishing House) Typolithography, Simferopol' [Ukraine]
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- Leningrad Offset Printing Plant
- Leningrad Union of Soviet Artists (LOSSKh)
- Lenizdat (Leningrad State Publishing) Typography Workshop
- Lidová knihtiskárna (People’s Book Printing House), Prague [Czechoslovakia]
- Lille Publishing and Printing Company, France
- Lithography Workshop of M.G. Ravitskii, Kharkov
- Lithography Workshop of the Central Publishing House, Moscow
- Lithography Workshop of the Penza Region Publishing House
- LPT Typography, Riga
- LRTPP Typography, Riga
- LT UN-9, Leningrad
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- M. I. Levin Chromolithography and Typography, Kharkov [Ukraine]
- M.Z. Aizenberg Lithography, [Yekaterinoslav]
- Main Directorate of Typography, Riga
- Mashistov Typolithography Partnership, Moscow
- May Fine Art Prints and Publishing (KAMAG)
- MGSNKh Typo-lithography Workshop, Moscow
- Minsk Lithographic Poligrafkombinat named for Iakub Kolas
- Mistetstvo (Art Publishing House) Typography Workshop, Kiev
- Moscow Offset Printing Plant
- Moscow Typography Workshop No. 5
- Moskust Tipolithography
- Mosoblpoligraf (Moscow Regional Printers), Moscow
- Mospoligraf (Moscow Polygraphic) 15th Lithography Workshop, Moscow (formerly Mashistov)
- Mospoligraf (Moscow Polygraphic), Moscow
- MSNKh 16th State Publishing Typography Workshop, Moscow (formerly Levinson)
- MSNKh 17th Typolithography, Zamoskvorech'e [Moscow]
- MSNKh 1st Exemplary Printing, Moscow
- MSNKh 2nd Typography-Lithography Workshop (formerly Mashistov), Moscow
- MSNKh 5th Typolithography, Moscow
N
- Narkomvoen (People's Commissariat for Military Affairs), Ukraine
- New Village Lithography, Moscow
- NKMP Lithography Workshop of Ukrpoligraftrust Book and Publishing Plant, Kiev
- NKMP Typolithography Workshop, North Ossetian ASSR
- NKMP Uzpoligrafkombinat Lithography Workshop, [Tashkent]
O
- October Typography of GSNKh (Provincial Soviet of National Economy), Yaroslavl’
- Odessa Provincial Department of Printing
- Offset Printing House, Budapest
- Offset Printing Plant No. 1, Kiev
- Offset Printing Plant of Rosglavpoligrafprom
- Offset Printing Plant of the UVI MO, [Moscow]
- OIKа (Regional Executive Committee) Typolithography, Samarkand
- Oktoober (October) Printers, [Tallinn, Estonia]
- Orbis [Printing and Publishing], Czechoslovakia
- OSVOD (Society for Promotion of Development of Water Transport and Protection of Human Life on Waterways)
P
- Partvidav Book Printing Plant of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (Bolshevik) Ukraine
- Pechatnik (Print Worker) Typolithography Workshop, Moscow
- Pechatnyi Dvor (Printing Court) Typography
- Petroraikombinat Typolithography Workshop, Leningrad
- Piatnik, Ltd., Budapest
- Politodel, PUR (Political Department of the Political Directorate of the Revolutionary Military Council), Lithography
- Printer not indicated
- Printing plant named for Dunaev, [Moscow]
- Printing plant named for V.M. Molotov, Moscow
- Printing School named for A.V. Baginskii, Kharkov
R
- R. Barnik Artistic Lithography, Ltd., Berlin
- R. Bеkman Lithography, Moscow
- Rabochaia Gazeta (Workers' Newspaper) Typography, Moscow
- Redizdat (Editorial and Publishing Department)
- Russian Partnership, Moscow
S
- School of Print Production named after L. Balabanov, Kiev
- Simbrisk Typography Workshop No. 2
- Sotsialistichna Kharkivshchina Publishing, Typography Workshop
- Soviet Siberia Typography, Novonikolaevsk [Novosibirsk]
- Sovkino (Soviet Cinema) Typolithograhy
- Spindulio (Radius) Press, Kaunas
- Stafford and Company Ltd., Netherfield (Nottingham, England)
- Stalinabad Printing Plant, [Dushanbe, Tajikistan]
- Stalinskoe Znamia (Stalin's Banner) Typolithography, Penza
- State Chromolithography Workshop Balkan, Sofia
- State Chromolithography Workshop, Tver
- State Chromolithography, Kishinev
- State Lithography Workshop named for M. Tomskii, Leningrad
- State Scientific and Technical Publishing House, Typo.-Litho.-Zincography
- State Typography Workshop named for Evgenii Sokolov, Petrograd (formerly A.F. Marks)
- State Typography Workshop named for Ivan Fedorov, Leningrad
- State Typography Workshop No. 2, Tambov
- Sverdlosk Chromolithography Workshop
- Szikra (Spark) Press and Publishing House, Budapest
- Sächsische Zeitung (Saxon News), Dresden
T
- Tashkent Lithography No. 1
- Tatpoligraf, Kazan
- Transpechat' of NKPS (People's Commissariat of Transportation and Communication)
- Transzheldorizdat (All-Union Publishing and Printing Association of Railway Transport)
- Trud i Tvorchestvo (Labor and Creativity) Typolithography, Moscow
- Trudovoi Lithography [Worker’s Cooperative], Leningrad
- Tsentrizdat (Central Publishing House of the Peoples of the USSR)
- Tsentropechat’ (Central Agency for Supply and Distribution of Printed Works)
- Typo-photo-zinc-lithography of the Poligraftrust, Novosibirsk
- Typography named for I.V. Stalin of the Pravda Newspaper, Moscow
- Typography named for the 26 Baku Commissars, Baku
- Typography No. 1 of the Poligrafizdat Trust, Novosibirsk
- Typography of Zoria Publishing House, Dnepropetrovsk
- Typography Publishing House of the Ivanovo Regional Soviet of Workers’ Deputies
- Typolithography No. 4 of the Uzbek Polygraph Publishing Trust, [Tashkent]
- Typolithography of Geokartprom of the V.T.U. (Military Topographic Directorate of the Soviet Army), Moscow
- Typolithography of Knizhnoe Delo (Book Business) Joint-Stock Company, Khabarovsk
- Typolithography of Pravda Vostoka (Truth of the East), Tashkent
- Typolithography of Rabochee Put' (Working Way), [Omsk]
- Typolithography of the Military Academy of the RKKA named for M.V. Frunze, Moscow
- Typolithography Workshop named for V.V. Vorovskii, Moscow
- Typolithography Workshop of A.O. Shterenzon, Kiev
- Typolithography Workshop of Gor'kovskaia Pravda Publishing House
- Typolithography Workshop of Priboi (Surf) Publishing, Leningrad
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- Umid (Hope) Typography Partnership, Kazan'
- Universal Publishing GmbH Offset Printing Plant, Leipzig
- UNPK (Educational and Scientific Pedagogical Complex) named for Skripnik
- UPP DVOU (Printing Industry Management/State Publishing Association of Ukraine)
- Uzpoligraf Typolithography, Uzbekistan
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- VAPP (State Supply and Printing Enterprises Administration) Typography, Riga
- VAPP Cartographic Institute
- VEB (People's Enterprise) Printer, [East Germany]
- Vkutemas (Higher Art and Technical Studios) Lithography Workshop, [Moscow]
- VSNKh (Supreme Soviet of the National Economy) of Lithopoligraf Trust