Делегату 1-го Всеузбекского с'езда (To the Delegate of the 1st All-Uzbek Congress): bilingual Uzbek and Russian Soviet poster
On a solid red ground, a portrait of Lenin in a suit is set inside a spray of grain ears and a flowering branch, above draped banners and a red star carrying a hammer and sickle. Above and below are matching lines in Uzbek in Arabic script and in Russian: the slogan 'Proletarians of all countries, unite!' and a greeting 'To the delegate of the 1st All-Uzbek Congress, January-February 1925'. The portrait, star and slogan lend Lenin's authority and the Communist emblem to an ordinary delegate's notice.
- Date
- 1925
- Period
- Interwar
- Made by
- Lithography of the Uzbek Revkom, Tashkent (as printed, 'Лит. Ревк. Уз.'), for the First All-Uzbek Congress; artist not identified
- Region
- Eastern Europe and Eurasia
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Soviet Union
- Leader
- Alexei Rykov
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- Labor, Elections and party politics
- Techniques
- Transfer
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons, retrieved September 29, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (published 1924 or 1925; Commons: PD-Art / PD-old-70; also published before 1931)
Unknown artist, Lithography of the Uzbek Revkom, Tashkent, c. 1924-25; Russian State Library, via Wikimedia Commons.
Text on the object
بوتون دنیا یوقسوللاری برله شگو Пролетарии всех стран соединяйтесь! بوتون ئوزبیکستان برنچی قورولتای وە کیلی گە . ДЕЛЕГАТУ 1-го ВСЕУЗБЕКСКОГО С'ЕЗДА. ۱۹۲۵ یل . یانوار - فیورال . Январь-Февраль 1925 г. ТУРКЛИТ № 159 ТИРАЖ 700. ЛИТ. РЕВК. УЗ.
Proletarians of the whole world, unite [Uzbek line, read by machine] Proletarians of all countries, unite! To the delegate of the entire Uzbekistan first congress [Uzbek line, read by machine] TO THE DELEGATE OF THE 1st ALL-UZBEK CONGRESS. 1925 year, January-February [Uzbek line, read by machine] January-February 1925. TURKLIT No. 159 EDITION 700. LITH. REVK. UZ.
The Arabic-script Uzbek lines were read by machine from the image and are not verified by a reader of 1920s Uzbek orthography; their meaning is confirmed by the parallel Russian lines and the library catalogue, and the exact spelling of the last word of the top Uzbek line is uncertain. The Russian slogan is set in a stylised hand and its second word is read as 'Пролетарии'. The small imprint abbreviations at the bottom ('ТУРКЛИТ', 'ЛИТ. РЕВК. УЗ.') are transcribed as printed and not expanded.
