Город — мануфактуру, деревня — хлеб (Town: Manufactured Goods; Village: Bread)
A worker in a cap holds up a flower-patterned bolt of cloth beside stacked fabric, buttons and thread; a peasant woman in a headscarf gestures to three sacks of grain. The slogan splits the exchange into two halves, 'Town: manufactured goods' and 'Village: bread'. Two smiling ordinary people stand in for the whole town and the whole countryside, the plain-folks tell.
- Date
- 1925
- Period
- Interwar
- Made by
- Poster by Boris Kustodiev; commissioning body not stated on the object
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Mixed
- Regime
- Soviet Union
- Leader
- Alexei Rykov
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- Economy and finance, Labor
- Event
- New Economic Policy
- Techniques
- Plain folks
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons (scan from artchive.ru), retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (1925 work; artist d. 1927; Commons: PD-Russia/PD-old)
Boris Kustodiev, 1925, via artchive.ru and Wikimedia Commons.
Text on the object
ГОРОД МАНУФАКТУРУ — ДЕРЕВНЯ ХЛЕБ Б. Кустодиев 1925
TOWN MANUFACTURED GOODS — VILLAGE BREAD B. Kustodiev 1925
The signature initial at lower left is read as 'Б.' and is small.
