1112 - Avantgarde - Russia - Stroitel'stvo Moskvy (Moscow Under Construction). Issue 2, 1929. Cover design by Gustav Klucis and Vasily El'kin, with numerous photographic and schematic illustrations. Moscow, published by the Moscow Soviet of Workers’, Peasants’, and Red Army Deputies, 1929. 31 pp. 30 x 23 cm. Illustrated original paperback.

Avantgarde - Russia - Stroitel'stvo Moskvy (Moscow Under Construction). Issue 2, 1929. Cover design by Gustav Klucis and Vasily El'kin, with numerous photographic and schematic illustrations. Moscow, published by the Moscow Soviet of Workers’, Peasants’, and Red Army Deputies, 1929. 31 pp. 30 x 23 cm. Illustrated original paperback. First edition. — With contributions by, among others, the architects I. Rybchenkov, N. Krasil’nikov, and L. Nappel’baum, B. Shcherbakov, a synopsis of Bruno Taut’s premises for the New Building—translated into Russian and provided by the Soviet-German Society “Culture and Technology”—(under the title “Contemporary Architecture and Its Principles,” in Russian) as well as articles on engineering experiences and perspectives. The publication followed the “Week of German Technology,” organized by the Society in Moscow in January 1929 and subsequently in other industrial cities, which featured lectures by German specialists and exhibitions. As a result of this exchange, the publication of a specialized journal, the “Russian-German Messenger of Science and Technology,” was also initiated. The productive collaboration between G. Klucis and V. El’kin produced designs for several Constructivist publications. — Good copy. *