In the mid-1970s, when Moscow was announced as the host of the 1980 Olympics, the Soviet publishing house Plakat began printing Games-related materials and distributing advertising posters to friendly countries through foreign publishing houses.
In 1978, a major international Olympic poster competition was held in which artists from 45 countries submitted more than 5,000 works to Moscow. The prize-winning entries were published in huge circulations in the USSR and abroad. Here are some of them.
Hideo Kawazu, Shigeo Matsumoto, Harutomo Isinosawa, Ken Kishimoto (Japan)
From the collection of the Museum of MoscowMartin Krastev (Kristev; People's Republic of Bulgaria)
From the collection of the Museum of MoscowGaregin Burnuchyan (Burnuchan) (Tbilisi, USSR)
From the collection of the Museum of MoscowKarol Slivka (Polish People's Republic)
From the collection of the Museum of MoscowJeffrey N. Rugless (Australia)
From the collection of the Museum of MoscowViktor Potapov (Moscow, USSR)
From the collection of the Museum of MoscowFelix Beltran (Cuba)
From the collection of the Museum of MoscowMartin Motloch, Miroslav Lotka (Czechoslovak Socialist Republic)
From the collection of the Museum of MoscowMartino Gerevini (Italy)
From the collection of the Museum of MoscowSergey Chernov (Yalta, USSR)
From the collection of the Museum of MoscowRadivoe Milutina Yugovich (Yugoslavia)
From the collection of the Museum of MoscowJutta Damm-Fiedler, Jochen Fiedler (GDR)
From the collection of the Museum of MoscowViktor Pudakov (Moscow, USSR)
From the collection of the Museum of MoscowYadamsurengiyn Urzhinee (Mongolia)
From the collection of the Museum of MoscowVyacheslav Davydov (Moscow, USSR)
From the collection of the Museum of MoscowJose F. Datuin (Philippines)
From the collection of the Museum of MoscowFernando Cabreios Braga (Peru)
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