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"Mother and Son" by Boris Yermolayev (autolithograph, 1960s)
Kallis // Marju Kuut & Uno Loop
Marju Kuut & Uno Loop (Мелодия, 1971)
Assorted pages from Mashines ("Machines") by Leib Kvitko (1890–1952)
Illustrations by Boris Kriukow (1895–1967)
ל. קװיטקאָ, מאַשינעס ([קיעװ]: אוקרמעלוכענאַצמענפֿאַרלאַג)
El Lissitzky (Russian/Jewish, 1890–1941)
Cover of sheet music by Josef Engel ("Air de dance pour piano" / "Pesnia pliaska palestinskikh evreev" / "Shira chadashah") published by Obshchestvo evreiskoi muzyki (The Society for Hebraic Music), Moscow, 1919
Aleksandr Deineka (1899–1969)
Cover of the journal Daesh’!, May 1929
Museum of Modern Art
Vignettes of a Soviet amusement park, from a wordless picture book by VKhUTEIN graduates Valeriy Alfeevsky and Tatiana Lebedeva
Валерий Алфеевский + Татьяна Лебедева, Парк культуры и отдыха (Moscow: Государственное издательство, 1930)
"Got to Make Time For Everything" by L. Shepelev (linocut, 1961)
Pyotr Konchalovsky (1876–1956)
"Portrait of the theatre director Vsevolod Meyerhold (1874–1940)", 1938
State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
Meyerhold was a significant figure in symbolist, constructivist, and futurist circles. This portrait was painted about a year before his arrest by the NKVD and his wife's murder. He was tortured and subsequently shot by firing squad in 1940.
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Sara Masheeva (left), an employee of the Jewish Museum, during field research of the national costume of Bukharian Jews. Uzbek SSR, Samarkand, 1930s
Almanakh VUSPP (אַלמאַנאַך װאוספּפּ) (Kharkov: Tsentrfarlag / צענטרפארלאג, 1929)
Almanac of the Yiddish section of the All-Ukrainian Association of Proletarian Writers. Cover illustrated by B. Blank and M. Fradkin.
Image via Yiddish Book Center, info via Stanford Libraries
Marc Chagall, 1918
Amshey Nurenberg (אמשײ ניורענבערג), "My Friend Marc Chagall" (מײַן פֿרײַנט מארק שאגאל), in Sovetish Heymland (סאָװעטיש הײמלאנד), nr. 12, 1967
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Judeo-Tat drama group in Gyrmyzy Gasaba, Azerbaijan, 1932.
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"Bread Plant" written and illustrated by Nikolai Troshin and Olga Deineko (USSR, 1931).
"Bread plant is not just a bakery. Brown bricks of bread are made not by a baker, but by machines."
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Mail lady of the village, photo by Semyon Fridlyand (1950)
"Pioneers, strengthen the defence of the Soviet land! More circles of young friends of Osoaviakhim!"
Lithograph by Yekaterina Zernova (b. Simferopol 1900 - d. Moscow 1995), designed 1934
Иллюстрации "Кукушка". Ненецкая сказка Illustrations "Cuckoo". Nenets fairy tale
Illustrator Kirill Ovchinnikov Иллюстратор Кирилл Овчиников. Из "Олешек-золотые рожки. Сказки народов Севера" 1968.
Grigoriy Shponko (Григорій Шпонько, Ukrainian, 1926-2005)
"Clearing snow", 1972