Cyrillic Collection

COMMUNIST POSTER, 1967. Lenin lived, Lenin lives, Lenin will live forever! Poster by Viktor Ivanov, Soviet Union, 1967

Alexei Leonov, first space walk, 1965
First space walk. Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov (born 1934), outside the Voskhod 2 spacecraft in a spacesuit on 18 March 1965, while orbiting the Earth (in the background)

Death to World Imperialism, poster, 1919. Artist: Dmitriy Stakhievich Moor
Death to World Imperialism, poster, 1919. Found in the collection of the Russian State Library, Moscow

The Young Communist League is the Shock Battalion of the Five-Year Plan. Soviet poster, 1931, by Vladimir Lyushin
RUSSIA: FIVE YEAR PLAN. The Young Communist League is the Shock Battalion of the Five-Year Plan. Soviet poster, 1931, by Vladimir Lyushin

No! : Soviet poster, 1958, by Albert Aslyan
RUSSIA: ANTI-NUCLEAR, 1958. No! : Soviet poster, 1958, by Albert Aslyan

GOGOL: DEAD SOULS, 1842. Title page to the first edition of Nikolai Gogols Dead Souls, 1842

Orbit of Sputnik 1, Soviet 1957 diagram
Orbit of Sputnik 1. Diagram showing the Earth orbits possible for different spacecrafts. Sputnik 1, the first spacecraft ever to reach Earth orbit, was launched on 4 October 1957 by the Soviet Union

COMMUNIST POSTER, 1968. Long Live the Socialist Revolution! A poster by Vladimir Kalensky, Soviet Union, 1968

Soviet cholera vaccination poster, 1967
Soviet cholera vaccination poster. Poster which appeared in the USSR in 1967, urging citizens to get themselves vaccinated against cholera

Gagarin and Tereshkova, souvenir postcard
Gagarin and Tereshkova, Soviet cosmonauts, souvenir postcard. Yuri Gagarin (1934-1968) was the first person in space. On 12 April 1961

Sofia Kovalevskaya, Russian mathematician
Sofia Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya (1850-1891), Russian mathematician. Kovalevskaya was the first female member of the St Petersburg Academy of Sciences

Hydra constellations, 1829 C016 / 4412
Hydra constellations. 19th-century map of stars and constellations from the celestial atlas Sozviezdiia Predstavlennyia na XXX Tablitsakh (1829) by Kornelius Reissig

Each Blow of the Sledge-Hammer is a Blow against the Enemy. Russian poster, 1920, by Viktor Deni
RUSSIA: ANTI-CAPITALIST POSTER, 1920. Each Blow of the Sledge-Hammer is a Blow against the Enemy. Russian poster, 1920, by Viktor Deni

PRAVDA: COMMUNIST POSTER. Pravda: Our task is to overcome capitalist resistance-not only military and political resistance, but idelogical resistance which is the most profound and powerful

RUSSIAN REVOLUTION, 1922. Long Live the Fifth Anniversary of the Great Proletarian Revolution! Russian Soviet lithograph poster, 1922, by Ivan Simakov

RUSSIA: ARMY POSTER, 1920. Have You Volunteered for the Red Army? Russian Soviet lithograph poster, 1920, by Dmitry Moor

SOVIET POSTER, 1942. Soldier, save us! Soviet poster, 1942, by Viktor Koretsky

Work hard during harvest time and you will be rewarded with plenty of bread
RUSSIA: COLLECTIVE FARM. " Work hard during harvest time and you will be rewarded with plenty of bread!" : Russian Soviet poster, 1947, by Mikhail Solovyov

Ursa Major constellation, 1829 C016 / 4387
Ursa Major constellation. 19th-century map of stars and constellations from the celestial atlas Sozviezdiia Predstavlennyia na XXX Tablitsakh (1829) by Kornelius Reissig

Give first priority to gathering the Soviet harvest! : Russian Soviet poster, 1934, by Maria Voron
RUSSIA: COLLECTIVE FARM. " Give first priority to gathering the Soviet harvest!" : Russian Soviet poster, 1934, by Maria Voron

Russian World War I war loan poster, 1916, depicting a woman factory worker
WORLD WAR I: LOAN POSTER. Russian World War I war loan poster, 1916, depicting a woman factory worker

SOVIET POSTER, 1924. Long Live the Young Communist League! The Young are taking over the older generations torch
SOVIET POSTER, 1924. " Long Live the Young Communist League! The Young are taking over the older generations torch!" : Russian Soviet lithograph poster, 1924, by Alexander Samokhvalov

Tunguska event stamp, 50th anniversary. This Soviet stamp of 1958 depicts the Russian mineralogist and Tunguska event researcher Leonid Kulik (1883-1942) at right

Board Number 1 (Staro-Basmannaya Street) 1916 (oil on canvas)
BAL194923 Board Number 1 (Staro-Basmannaya Street) 1916 (oil on canvas) by Tatlin, Vladimir Evgrafovich (1885-1953); 100x57 cm; Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia

Das Kapital. Kritik der politischen Oekonomie (Book 1) by Karl Marx title page of the first 1872 Russian language
5669001 Das Kapital. Kritik der politischen Oekonomie (Book 1) by Karl Marx title page of the first 1872 Russian language edition of published in 1867; (add.info)

Short-term obligation of the State Treasury of the Siberian Provisional Government... 1919. Creator: I. V. Kezhemiakin
Short-term obligation of the State Treasury of the Siberian Provisional Government to pay 25 rubles on January 1, 1920, 1919

Ia. M. Serebriakov's Tobacco Factory, Omsk. His Own Shops in Omsk and Tomsk, 1900-1914. Creator: Unknown
Ia. M. Serebriakov's Tobacco Factory, Omsk. His Own Shops in Omsk and Tomsk, 1900-1914. This collection includes tsarist-era advertisements

S. Kh. Randrup's Factory in Omsk, 1909-1914. Creator: Unknown
S. Kh. Randrup's Factory in Omsk, 1909-1914. This collection includes tsarist-era advertisements and a set of posters from the era of the Russo-Japanese War (1904-5)

ERB-49 f.76 Scribe writing out the Gospel (verso); page of text decorated with an illumination (recto)
BOO74706 ERB-49 f.76 Scribe writing out the Gospel (verso); page of text decorated with an illumination (recto), from a Gospel Folio, Russian

Les russes en France; Dans les tranchees russes sur le front de Champagne, 1916. Creator: Unknown
Les russes en France; Dans les tranchees russes sur le front de Champagne, 1916. From "Collection de la Guerre IV. L'Illustration Tome CXLVIII

Second shaving of the beard, 1872. Creator: Mikhail Znamensky
Second shaving of the beard, 1872. From a collection of 239 drawings and illustrations which include drawings of artifacts from archaeological finds in the territory of West Siberia

Seals of the Provinces and Oblasts of Asiatic Russia, 1914. Creator: Resettlement Department of the Land Regulation
Seals of the Provinces and Oblasts of Asiatic Russia, 1914. From the atlas "Atlas of Asian Russia."

Map on the drainage of the Barabinsk steppe in the Tomsk province, Kainsk district, 1914. From the atlas "Atlas of Asian Russia."

Map of the Altai Region from the Office of His Majesty, 1914. Creator: Resettlement Department of the Land Regulation
Map of the Altai Region from the Office of His Majesty, 1914. From the atlas "Atlas of Asian Russia."

Map of Zabaikal Province, 1914. Creator: Resettlement Department of the Land Regulation and Agriculture Administration
Map of Zabaikal Province, 1914. From the atlas "Atlas of Asian Russia."

Map of the Military Districts of Asiatic Russia, 1914. Creator: Resettlement Department of the Land Regulation
Map of the Military Districts of Asiatic Russia, 1914. From the atlas "Atlas of Asian Russia."

Map of the Kuril Islands with Surrounding Areas, 1700-1799. Creator: Unknown
Map of the Kuril Islands with Surrounding Areas, 1700-1799. This 18th century Russian map depicts the Kurile Islands archipelago, located on the far eastern edge of the Russian Empire

Geognostic Map of the Localities of Irkutsk, Verkholensk, and Balagansk Districts, 1873. The first geological (geognostic) maps in Russia were produced in the 1850s

Plan of the newly designed location of the provincial town of Narym, Tomsk province, 1868. Creator: Unknown
Plan of the newly designed location of the provincial town of Narym, Tomsk province, 1868

Karta I?A?kutskoi? oblasti chasti Olekminskago okruga i Irkutskoi? guberni¯i? Kirenskogo... 1853. Creator: Unknown
Karta I?A?kutskoi? oblasti chasti Olekminskago okruga i Irkutskoi? guberni¯i? Kirenskogo [sic] chast okrugas pokazani¯em zolotosoderzhashchikh pri¯i?skov razrabatyvaemyi?a? : gg

The direction of reindeer husbandry and dog breeding, 1932. Creator: Unknown
The direction of reindeer husbandry and dog breeding, 1932. Conventional signs: adult reindeer with the distinction of sled dogs, adult dogs with the distinction of sled dogs, herding dogs

[Karty pochtovykh soobshcheni¯i? uchrezhdennykh v Rossi¯i?skoi? Imperi¯i pri T?S?ari?e... (186-?). Creator: Unknown
[Karty pochtovykh soobshcheni¯i? uchrezhdennykh v Rossi¯i?skoi? Imperi¯i pri T?S?ari?e? Aleksi?e?i?e? Mikhailovichi?e? i ego preemnikakh do Ekateriny II], (186-?)

Kartogramma "grippa" : [Russia], 1890. Creator: Unknown. Kartogramma "grippa" : [Russia], 1890
Kartogramma "grippa" : [Russia], 1890. Shows occurrence of influenza by province. Each map has a number at head of title, and a month or months at the end of the title: No. 50

E?tnograficheskai?a? karta Azi¯i?a?tskoi? Rossi¯i, (187-?). Creator: Mikhail Veniukov
E?tnograficheskai?a? karta Azi¯i?a?tskoi? Rossi¯i, (187-?). Pulkovo meridian

Industry of binding building materials on January 1, 1933, 1934. Creator: Mikhail Alekseevich TSvetkov
Industry of binding building materials on January 1, 1933, 1934. From the atlas "Industry of the USSR at the beginning of the 2nd Five-Year Plan

Extraction and primary processing of non-metallic minerals as of January 1, 1933, 1934. From the atlas "Industry of the USSR at the beginning of the 2nd Five-Year Plan

Production of refractory products on January 1, 1933, 1934. Creator: Mikhail Alekseevich TSvetkov
Production of refractory products on January 1, 1933, 1934. From the atlas "Industry of the USSR at the beginning of the 2nd Five-Year Plan

Chemical industry of the USSR on January 1, 1933, 1934. Creator: Mikhail Alekseevich TSvetkov
Chemical industry of the USSR on January 1, 1933, 1934. From the atlas "Industry of the USSR at the beginning of the 2nd Five-Year Plan

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"Cyrillic: A Visual Journey Through Soviet History" Step into the world of Cyrillic, a script that has witnessed and shaped significant moments in Soviet history. From powerful communist posters to groundbreaking space exploration, this captivating alphabet tells tales of revolution, ideology, and scientific achievements. In 1967, Viktor Ivanov's iconic communist poster boldly proclaimed "Lenin lived, Lenin lives, Lenin will live forever. " This vibrant artwork immortalized the leader who inspired generations with his socialist ideals. The Young Communist League took center stage in Vladimir Lyushin's 1931 poster as the Shock Battalion of the Five-Year Plan. Symbolizing youthful determination and dedication to progress, it embodied the spirit of collective effort during a crucial period of industrialization. Alexei Leonov's historic spacewalk in 1965 marked a milestone for humanity. As we gazed at his courageous feat beyond Earth's boundaries, Cyrillic silently celebrated this triumph alongside us. Dmitriy Stakhievich Moor's striking poster from 1919 declared "Death to World Imperialism, " reflecting an era filled with revolutionary fervor against oppressive forces that threatened equality and freedom. Albert Aslyan captured defiance in his simple yet impactful artwork titled "No. " The year was 1958 when this powerful message resonated through every corner of Soviet society challenging conformity and advocating for individuality. Nikolai Gogol's masterpiece "Dead Souls" found its place within Cyrillic on its title page from the first edition published in 1842. This literary gem continues to captivate readers worldwide even after centuries have passed. Sputnik 1 orbited proudly around our planet according to a diagram created by Soviet scientists in 1957. This pioneering achievement ushered humanity into an age where dreams became reality among distant stars. Vladimir Kalensky echoed hope for lasting change with his rousing socialist revolution poster from 1968.