The size is continental standard 6" x 4", unmailable without a cover. Published by The Soviet Artist Publishing House, circulation 46,000, quite small by Soviet standards. The artist's name, A. Mizin, is printed in the left-hand corner on the verso. The artwork is an offset print of Mizin's 1940-1941 painting from the collection of the State Literature Museum in Moscow, depicting a procession of young construction workers on march to their construction site. The caption on the verso is the final stanza from Mayakovsky's poem which gave the artist the title of this painting. The stanza says, "I know - the city will rise, I know - the garden will blossom when there are such people in the Soviet country!"

In excellent condition.

Kuznetskstroy was the top priority major "shock" construction project of the first Five-Year Plan based on the government's decision to create a powerful coal and metallurgic industrial base utilizing the iron ore of the Urals and the coal of Siberia. Construction began at the end of 1929, based on the project done by Freyn Engineering Company (a consulting company based in Chicago, IL). The working and living conditions of the thousands of workers were typical early-Soviet industrial nightmare. With temperatures rarely above minus 30 degrees Celcius, they lived in barracks with walls of wet raw wood boards, no glass in the windows, leaky roofs covered with earth-manure mix for insulation. But in just 1,000 days, the Kuznetsk Metallurgical Works produced its first cast iron. It is impossible to over-estimate its role during WW2. Simply put, it made victory possible for the Soviet Union.