1980s Soviet Posters for Cultural Events

My parents in Chicago have some neat posters from the late Soviet period 
announcing various artistic and cultural events in Kyiv.


Poster from 1987
Performance of Kupala rituals at the Folk Architecture Museum in Kyiv
Organized by the Ministry of Culture of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic

Міністерство культури української РСР
Українське товариство охорони пам'яток історії та культури
Музей народної архітектури та побуту УРСР


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Poster from 1989
Academic conference marking the 90th birthday anniversary of Vasyl Sedliar
at the Rylsky Institute of Art Studies, Folklore and Ethnology

Спілка художників України
Київська організація спілки художників України
Інститут мистецтвознавства фольклору та етнографії ім. М. Т. рильського АН УРСР
(нині Мистецтва,фольклористики та етнології інститут ім. М. Рильського)


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Poster fom 1981
Exhibition of graphics by Heorhiy Ivanovych Narbuta
at the National Art Museum of Ukraine in Kyiv
Державний музей українського образотворчого мистецтва УРСР 
Київська міська організація добровільного товариства любитеів книги


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Exhibition of works by Oksana Pavlenko
at the National Art Museum of Ukraine in Kyiv

Український фонд культури
Київська організація спілки художників України
Державний музей українського образотворчого мистецтва
Редакція щорічника "Наука і Культура"

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