VAPP (State Supply and Printing Enterprises Administration) Typography, Riga

ВАПП типолитография, Рига

VAPP (State Supply and Printing Enterprises Administration) Typography, Valsts apgādniecību un poligrāfisko uzņēmumu pārvaldes in Latvian was a printing trust created in 1941 with support from the Soviet Union and via Decree of the Latvian SSR People's Council of Commissars. VAPP controlled the stationary (paper) distribution, book selling repositories and nearly all printing and publishing operations within the Latvian SSR. Its headquarters were located at 11 Moskovskaia Street (today Teatrealnaia Street) in Riga.

PP 087: Glory to our brave Red Army that saved the independence of our homeland and won the victory for over the enemy!

PP 289: Glory to our Victorious [and] Heroic Army!

PP 478: I Will Become A Metal Worker!
[Lower text] Young men and women! Let’s help create powerful worker reserves for the Soviet State. Enroll in vocational colleges, railway colleges and the FZO (factory apprenticeship school).

PP 493: I will vote for candidates of the blocks of communists and of the unaligned!

PP 504: Long live the brotherly union and unbreakable friendship of the peoples of the USSR!

PP 765: Glory to the Soviet of the Latvian people who won victory over the forces of German and Japanese imperialist fascism!

PP 816: Laboring people of Soviet Latvia!
Vote for the candidates of the bloc of Communists and non-aligned parties!

PP 829: I will vote for the Communist and Independent Bloc of Candidates!

PP 1056: [Pending translation (Без Перевода)]

PP 1092: Laboring people of Soviet Latvia! Vote for the candidates of the bloc of Communists and non-aligned February 10, (1946)

Sources & Citations

Bleiere, D., Vēsturnieku komisija Latvijas, et.al. (2007). Latvijas vēsture 20. gadsimta 40.-90. gados:Latvijas Vēsturnieku Komisijas 2006. gada pētījumi. Rīga: Latvijas vēstures institūta apgāds. (P. 21, VAPP formation date and duties in 1941)
E. Ābolin̦š. (1987). Latvijas padomju enciklopēdija. (VAPP history explained)
Drīzulis, A., Latvijas PSR Zinātn̦u akadēmija. (1986). Latvijas PSR vēsture: No vissenākajiem laikiem līdz mūsu dienām. (VAPP cited)
enciklopedija.lv/skirklis/57113-Arvīds-Grigulis (VAPP cited)