Description: FOLLOW SAFETY RULES WHEN LOADING RAILS! Highly rare original Soviet safety and accident prevention poster that used to be used in the Transpolar railway in USSR, that was built in 40s-50s by ГУЛЖДС МВД СССР. The railway to nowhere, with its huge cost in human lives, became known as the “Dead Road” or “Road of Bones”. Under Stalin hundreds of thousands of prisoners among them the founder of the Soviet space programme, generals and intellectuals side by side with common criminals worked in extremely hard condition.That's why the quality of works was extremely low and often workers, mostly intelligentsia, didn't know the simple safety rules causing injuries and mortality. That's why the Soviet government had decided to develop such instrument as accident prevention posters. Excactly '50ss are the initial years of wide inception of safety posters in Russia. The safety posters were widely used while putting railway road lines as well as while building new houses and constructions for all workers and administration personal in new lands, mainly in Siberia. It was really slave labor camps operated by the Soviet Union from the 1930s to the 1950s. The poster was approved byEditorial methodical commission of the Department of skilled workers, labour & wages under the Ministry of Transportation infrastructure construction in the central committee of the trade union of workers of railway transport. The poster was issued by: ГУЖДС МПС СССР (General Directorate of the railway construction, by Ministry of Transportation Infrastructure Construction in USSR) ........................................................................ ARTIST: Suhondaevskiy V.V. DATE: 1954 EDITION: 3000 PUBLISHER: see description LANGUAGE: Russian SIZE: in: 14x17 - cm: 34x42 CONDITION: VERY GOOD, FLAT ........................................................................ Listing and template services provided by inkFrog
Price: 200 USD
Location: Clarksburg, Maryland
End Time: 2024-11-07T22:53:29.000Z
Shipping Cost: 25 USD
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Restocking Fee: No
Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
Refund will be given as: Money back or replacement (buyer's choice)
Size: Large (up to 60 in wide)
Region of Origin: USSR
Featured Person/Artist: Friendrich Engels, Karl Marx, Joseph Stalin, Nikita Khrushchev, Leonid Brezhnev, Mikhail Gorbachev, Yuri Andropov
Custom Bundle: No
Item Height: 15 in
Item Width: 17 in
Personalize: No
Title: ACCIDNT PREVENT POSTER
Type: Poster
Certificate of Authenticity (COA): No
Culture: USSR
Signed: No
Original/Licensed Reprint: Original
Unit of Sale: Single-Piece Work
Handmade: No
Artist: SUKHONDAEVSKIY V.V.
Character: Karl Marx, Friendrich Engels, Joseph Stalin, Nikita Khrushchev, Leonid Brezhnev, Mikhail Gorbachev, Yuri Andropov
Framing: Unframed
Country/Region of Manufacture: Russian Federation
Style: Socialist Realism, Socrealism, Affichiste, Art Deco, Avant-garde, Constructivism, Realism, Russian, Surrealism
Material: Paper
Theme: Communism, Bolsheviks, Retro, Advertising, Agriculture, Art, Conflicts & Wars, History, Industrial, Patriotic, People, Politics, Social History
Features: Signed, 1st Edition, Limited Edition
Subject: Communism, Bolsheviks, Advertising, Agriculture, Art, History, Patriotic, Politics, Social History, Working Life, Military
Item Length: 17 in
Year of Production: 1954
Listed By: Dealer or Reseller
Date of Creation: 1950-1960
Width (Inches): 17
Color: Multi-Color
Height (Inches): 15
