• Original Soviet Ukrainian educational school poster "Granite" designed to teach students about the mining process and the mineral composition of granite rock. Features illustrations of different minerals and a mining process.
  • Ukrainian vintage Illustration of a Granite quarry with mining equipment and workers with a caption in Ukrainian.
  • Ukrainian vintage Illustration of different types of rocks and minerals with captions in Ukrainian.
  • pink granite illustration - detail of a vintage poster with caption in Ukrainian.
  • Vintage Illustration of a mining equipment with workers around it in a granite quarry
  • Illustration of mining equipment and a truck in a mine setting
  • Vintage Illustration of different types of minerals / rocks with labels in Ukrainian
  • Vintage illustration of a black mica and a caption in Ukrainian - educational poster detail
  • Vintage illustration of a white mica sample with Ukrainian text - educational poster detail
  • Ukrainian vintage educational poster about Granite mining and minerals with illustrations of a mine and various rocks.
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1975 "Granite" / ГРАНІТ Original Soviet Ukrainian Natural History School Poster | USSR Vintage Geology Educational Chart

1975 "Granite" / ГРАНІТ Original Soviet Ukrainian Natural History School Poster | USSR Vintage Geology Educational Chart

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An original Soviet vintage educational poster "Granite", designed to teach students about the mining process and the mineral composition of granite rock. Printed at Kyiv (Music) Note Factory in 1975. A teaching aid from the collection of a retired teacher, used in classrooms in Ukraine. A rare survivor from a time when the Ukrainian language was suppressed and replaced by Russian across the Soviet education system. 
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The upper illustration is captioned "Розробка граніту в кар'єрі" (Granite mining / development in an open-pit quarry). It depicts heavy industrial equipment used during mining. 

The lower half displays different types of granite alongside the separate component minerals that combine to form it: grey and pink granite, feldspar, quartz and white and black mica.

SIZE:
89,5 x 60cm

CONDITION:
Good vintage, subtle signs of classroom use: patina and light wear to the edges. Strengthened at the reverse with a bit of archival tape (photo 12) – a genuine piece of Soviet educational history. Please enlarge photos for details. 

Ships rolled up, unframed.

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