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Intourist
One sheet, This image is a vintage travel poster from 1936 advertising tourism in Baku, Azerbaijan, when it was part of the USSR
. The poster was created for Intourist, the Soviet Union's official travel agency, which was founded by Joseph Stalin in 1929 to attract foreign visitors.
The poster depicts the port of Baku with a prominent oil derrick, which was a key aspect of the city's identity and a symbol of industrial progress and modernization for the Soviet state. The image also shows a ship on the water and the city skyline in the background under a blue sky.
The visual style of the poster is characteristic of Soviet propaganda and travel art from the era, portraying a "rose-tinted, cosmopolitan and exotic" version of the Soviet Union to appeal to travelers.
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