Measures 9" x 13 ¼". The artist's signature is not present but the artistic style and the fact that this piece is one of several from the archive of N. Chebotayev who worked as an artist for the newspaper Krasnoyarskiy Komsomolets, allow us to be quite certain that this is one of his works.

In excellent condition. The obverse is nearly pristine, showing no soiling or any other wear visible to the naked eye. Note that the uneven line of the top edge was made intentionally, presumably to fit the drawing with other items on the newspaper page. The ink stamp on the v

Measures 9" x 13 ¼". The artist's signature is not present but the artistic style and the fact that this piece is one of several from the archive of N. Chebotayev who worked as an artist for the newspaper Krasnoyarskiy Komsomolets, allow us to be quite certain that this is one of his works.

In excellent condition. The obverse is nearly pristine, showing no soiling or any other wear visible to the naked eye. Note that the uneven line of the top edge was made intentionally, presumably to fit the drawing with other items on the newspaper page. The ink stamp on the verso is filled in with an editor's approval for using this drawing, dated 25 April 1935.

The drawing was made for an issue of the Krasnoyarskiy Komsomolets newspaper, a publication intended for young adult readership, members of the Lenin Young Communist League, aka Komsomol. Krasnoyarsk, a large city on the banks of the Yenisei River, is the administrative center of the Krasnoyarsk Krai, an enormous region occupying 913,800 sq. miles of territory in Siberia along the Yenisei River. In the early 1930s, it saw the beginning of rapid economic growth. Gold and coal mining almost doubled from 1931 to 1934, polymetallic ores discovered near Norilsk needed extracting and processing, new machine building factories and large thermal power plants were needed to meet the industrial demand, logging and woodworking was in high and ever-growing demand. All that would have been impossible without a labor force. The Soviet Power provided it following the tried and proven recipe of terror and repressions. The number of GULAG labor camps exploded, bringing hundreds of thousands of prisoners from all ends of the vast country to mine the natural resources and develop the industry. That was, after they had built their own prison camps, of course. As far as the public image of all those atrocities, this drawing is a good example of how they were advertised as the happy tightly-knit family of socialist nations serving their Motherland, building its bright communist future together under the banner of the founding fathers of Communism. Or, as history has shown, the Four Horsemen of Communism.

Please note that the pen in our photo is for size reference.
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