Stoite! Opomnites’! Strasti umer’te! SPID – kak chuma! Kak dykhanie smerti [i.e. Stop! Wake Up! Temper Passions! AIDS Is Like Plague! Like Death Breath!] / Drawing by V. Zhelobinskii, verses by V. Shumilina. Moscow: Khudozhnik RSFSR, [late 1980s]. 44x33 cm. Very good, stamp erased on rear side. DoSPIDania! [i.e...... More

Moscow: Soyuzplakat, 1972. Color lithographic poster (59 × 85 cm [23 ¼ × 33 ½ in.]). A few short tears along the lower margin; otherwise in very good condition. Unbacked. Issued in 1972, the poster celebrates the Soviet Union through one of its most economically important republics—Azerbaijan. At..... More

[1970s]. 27,5x35 cm. Mounted on kraft paper. Slightly wrinkled, otherwise very good. A promoting picture of various types of dairy food, including cottage cheese, soured cream, curd cheese bars with or without filling. In all, it features 13 variations. Such photographs frequently were illustrations of books showing off..... More

Moscow, [1924]. 70x55 cm. Fragment of upper edge lost (text affected), faded stains from glue around tears repaired, edges chipped. Otherwise good. Rare survival of the time. One of 1100 copies. Fragile advertisement poster for lectures given by a notable and recognized neurologist in the Polytechnic Museum in Moscow..... More

Riga: Tipografiia R. Ruetz, n.d. 90x56 cm. Tears of edges, faded strip in lower part, otherwise mint. Rare. In Latvian and Russian. An early 1920s movie poster released by a Riga theater. The movie theater ‘Moulin Rouge’ was renamed from ‘Ziemeļpols’ in the 1910s and worked until 1926..... More

Kyiv: Vyshcha shkola, 1974. 88x58,3 cm. Near fine. Design by I. Eshenko. This Ukrainian poster from a print series “Sportivnye igry” [Sports Games] features illustrative instructions to field handball. It contains images of basic options for catching and throwing a ball, actions of a goalkeeper and a scheme of..... More

Moscow: Tip. “Krasnaia zvezda”, [1960s]. 100x70,5 cm. Very good, tears, some of them restored. One of 600 copies. Fragile poster of large format printed on thin paper. In its design, an anonymous artist followed principles of Rodchenko’s constructivist designs. It reproduces a photograph of D. Shostakovich, V. Meyerhold..... More

Moscow: Reklamfil’m, 1952. 54x39 cm. Small tears of edges, pale water stains and some spots on blank edges, otherwise very good. ‘Jambyl’ [or more precisely Zhambyl] is a 1952 Soviet drama film directed by Efim Dzigan at the Alma-Ata film studio of feature and newsreel films. The picture..... More

Moscow: AIZ, late 1920s. Color lithographic poster (53 × 69 cm [20 ⅞ × 27 ⅛ in.]). Edition of 500 copies. Unbacked. Overall in very good condition. An exceptionally scarce advertising poster promoting the mechanization of flax processing in the Soviet countryside during the years of agricultural modernization preceding..... More

Kharkiv: Tsentral’naia tipografiia Dreishpulia, [1909-1910]. 8 pp.: ill. 35x27,5 cm. Tear of spine and some minor tears of edges, otherwise mint. In Russian. Extremely rare pre-revolutionary ad. It is a well-illustrated brochure promoting an enterprise owned by Anatoly Feliksovich Verner (?-1910), a professional photographer, a member of the Imperial..... More

Khabarovsk: Dal’kraisoiuz, 1930. 87x63 cm. Backed, few tears have been restored, otherwise near fine. One of 2000 copies. An impressive photomontage poster and a good example of an early Soviet posters issued for Far East enterprise staff. It was produced for employees of the Dal’kraisoiuz egg warehouses. Between..... More

Harbin: Tip. gaz. “Zhizn”, [early 20th century]. 32x23 cm. Very good, right edge chipped, with horizontal tear, otherwise very good. Fragile survivor of time. An illustrated advertisement for a warehouse of English footwear run by Russian emigrants in Harbin. According to the leaflet, this store was located in the..... More

Two issues. 1940-1950s. 29х40 cm. 1 - Small tears of edges, some stains, otherwise very good. 2 - Very good. These two satirical wall-newspapers were drawn by students of a Soviet high school. During the Soviet years, wall newspapers were produced in schools, universities, technical colleges..... More