Dorogomy Vladimiry Il'ichy Ul'anovy (Leninu) ot kommunal'nago upravleniia Aznefti.

Format
Book
Language
Azerbaijani
Published/​Created
[Azerbaijan.] [Place of publication not identified] [1922]
Description
[30] card ll., red hinges. 114 photographs (16.3 x 22.4 cm (2), 11 x 16 cm (112)). 32.8 cm red embossed cloth, gilt lettered

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Notes
  • Photographic album containing photographs of a school, libraries, workers' clubs, factories, a hospital, and sanatorium.
  • This album might have been a government funded propaganda effort arranged by the workers of an Azneft commune showcasing the amenities of a newly industrialized (and collectivized) life.
  • Among the photographs of schools are a class taught by a muslim woman, adult literacy classes, gymnastics, and various shop classes.
  • Sanatorium featured in second half of album are in Pyatigorsk and Kislovodsk, 2 cities in Stavropol Krai, Russia.
  • Azneft was the state owned oil company of Azerbaijan (now SOCAR) first nationalized by the Soviets.
  • Library stamps including many stamps for "T︠S︡entral'n Muzei V. I. Lenina", the now defunct Central Museum of V. I. Lenin located in the former Moscow City Hall.
Binding note
Original red embossed cloth, stamped in gilt, red cloth hinges.
Other title(s)
To dear Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Lenin) from the Communal Management of Azneft'
OCLC
177846791
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