• Unknown (photographer)
• Viktor Stepanovich Balikhin (compiler)

Partial view of the principal façade of an unidentified building, possibly a housing complex, showing applied decorations, in celebration of the 17th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, Kominterna Street, Moscow, Soviet Union (now in Russia)

October 1934

Gelatin silver print

comp.: 15.5 x 21.9 cm secondary support: 20.8 x 30.1 cm

PH2001:0132

• partial view
• exterior view

numbered and inscribed - in the image, u.r.: "XVII" [on building]; c.: "RABOCHIE I RABOTNITSY VSEKH STRAN! / RASSHIRIAITE I UKREPLIAITE / EDINYI FRONT BOR'BY / PROTIV FASHIZMA, / PROTIV KAPITALIZMA! / SPLACHIVAITES' VOKRUG / KOMMUNISTICHESKOGO INTERNATSIONALA" [WORKERS OF ALL COUNTRIES! / GROW AND FORTIFY / UNITED FRONT OF THE STRUGGLE / AGAINST FASHISM, / AGAINST CAPITALISM! / UNITE AROUND / COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL!; on building]; and "PROLETARIIAM ISPANII - / PEREDOVYM / GEROICHESKIM / BORTSAM PROTIV / FASHIZMA, / PROTIV KAPITALIZMA - / NASH BRATSKII / PRIVET!" [TO PROLETARIANS OF SPAIN - / OUTSTANDING / HEROIC / FIGHTERS AGAINST / FASHISM, / AGAINST CAPITALISM - / OUR BROTHERLY / SALUT!; on building]; c.r.: "SSSR" [USSR; on building]; and "[illeg.]" [cropped; on building] labelled, imprinted and numbered - in typescript and black ink, on a paper label attached to the l. side of the secondary support, u.l.: "Neg. No 6956" [Neg[ative]] 6956]; c.l.: "MOSKVA. / Oformlenie doma / po ul. Kominterna / v XVII godovshchinu / Oktiabria. 1934 g." [MOSCOW. / Decoration of building / on Kominterna St. / on the XVII anniversary / of October. 1934 y[ear].]; l.l.:"Tema: Zhilkompleks / sotsgoroda." [Topic: Hous[ing] complex / of soc[ialist] city.] numbered - by an unknown hand, in pen and blue ink, on the secondary support, verso, u.l.: "909" [diagonally]

Moscow; Russia (Federation);

• architecture
• portrait