Ekran Screen #21 1927

Original vintage magazine Ekran, issue number 21, May 1927. The ‘working newspaper’. Soviet weekly magazine on recent developments in the USSR and abroad. The front cover features a photograph of a reconstruction of Moscow by Y. Chumikin; the back cover features the advertising for Murzilka, a popular Soviet and Russian illustrated magazine for 6–12 year olds, published since May 1924. The issue features articles about the construction of The Dnieper Hydroelectric Station is the largest hydroelectric power station on the Dnieper River, located in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine; a story about the pre-revolutionary past of Bukhara, city in Uzbekistan; a waterway from the White Sea to the Caspian Sea; the English ship HMS Black Prince; protests of workers in New York in 1919; fantastic works such as Jules Verne's From the Earth to the Moon and novels by H. G. Wales, an English writer; illustrations by A Brey for the story "Zeynab". Andrey Brey was a Soviet artist, graphic artist, and illustrator, member of the Union of Artists of the USSR. He worked in the field of easel and book graphics; was engaged in lithography and linocut. 14 pages. Fair condition, tears on the spine, stain, browning.