Soyuz-3 flew on 26 October 1968, the second crewed Soyuz flight, piloted by Georgy Beregovoy from Baikonur Cosmodrome. The poster's lettering carries a line credited to Vladimir Mayakovsky. Designer unknown.
On the poster
A cadmium-red Soyuz-3 rocket rises from a flat silhouette of the Soviet Union, its finial spire drawn from the form of a Kremlin-tower. It climbs into a dark starfield of brushstroke arcs and scattered white points. To the left a drafting compass and a set-square cut across the sheet at opposing angles, and at the centre sits a bold geometric hammer and sickle. In the lower right the slogan is transliterated as "Nasha zhizn, v gryadushcheye rvatsya" (Our life, to surge into the future), with Mayakovsky's name beneath in italic.
The two colours are cadmium-red and deep charcoal on cream.
About this print
A digitally restored reproduction, printed on 200gsm Enhanced Matte Fine Art paper with pigment inks.





