The size is continental 6" x 4", unmailable without a cover. Published by the Visual Arts Publishing House, Moscow. Circulation 70,000 copies, rather small by Soviet standards. Part of a set or series of postcards with war-themed artwork. The artist's name, B. Shcherbakov, is printed in the upper left-hand corner on the verso. The artwork is an offset print of Shcherbakov's 1965 large, 1.4 x 2.75 meter oil-on-canvas painting on exhibit in the Central Armed Forces Museum in Moscow. The painting presents a Red Army private, a war veteran who had gone through the hell of the war, returned to the rubble the enemy had left of his home, and now is facing the task of re-building his life, literally, from the ground up.

In excellent condition, showing just barely perceptible traces of storage wear to the verso. The verso features a short essay about the painting.

Boris Shcherbakov (Борис Валентинович Щербаков, 1916 - 1995) was a renowned Soviet and Russian artist, People's Artist of the USSR (1986), winner of the Stalin Prize 3rd class (1952). During the Patriotic War of 1941-1945 he served as a combat engineer and, later, as a military artist, creating over 80 war-themed paintings.