Чугун 1927-28 г. (Pig Iron 1927-28) (with) Уголь 1927-28 г. (Coal 1927-28)

• Main Author: Laptev, A.M.
• Format: Book
• Language: unknown
• Published: GIZ (State Publishing House) 1930
• Subjects: Data Visualization; laptev
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Left Side (Pig Iron) Title: Чугун 1927-28 г. (Pig Iron 1927-28) Text: In large blast furnaces, pig iron is melted. Day and night, the fire burns in the blast furnaces. When the furnace is opened, a signal is given: Pig iron is coming! A river of fire pours out the metal. This is the future machinery, tractors, locomotives. Before the five-year plan, 3 million tons of pig iron were produced per year. Right Side (Coal) Title: Уголь 1927-28 г. (Coal 1927-28) Text: Coal is needed for power plants; not all of them run on water and peat. Coal is needed for blast furnaces, transportation, and steam engines. Coal is the main fuel of industry. Thousands of miners descend underground for coal. It is raised to the surface and loaded into wagons. In a year, 35 million tons of coal were produced. "A fine copy of this rare complex Constructivist panorama produced by A.M. Laptev, a gifted Soviet avant-garde graphic artist and graduate of VKhUTEMAS-VEKhUTEIN. Created to promote the vast industrial progress of Stalin's Five Year Plan through maps, charts, "Isotypes" and flaps that fold out to form an engaging visual essay on the then current economic state of the USSR. The panorama can be read in two directions: "The reader finds three maps: one for the electrification of the country, the second for the construction of factories, and the last for the collectivization of farms. Through these maps, young readers become familiar with a synchronic view of the Five-Year Plan . Turning the book over and starting from the back cover, the reader is presented with targets for ten aspects of Soviet industry: electricity, factory construction, iron, coal, oil, the chemical industry, bread production, forestry, transportation, and culture. Laptev illustrates the situation before the implementation of the 1927-28 Five-Year Plan with both the text and pictures. The reader is invited to open the flaps on the pages to unfold the dramatic changes caused by implementation of the Five-Year Plan in each of these industries" (Duda, Adventures in ...