Poster "All-Union Population Census of 1939"

An original and extremely rare large-format poster in very good collectible condition. The circulation is 600,000. Slightly trimmed from the bottom, duplicated on paper. Artists N. Zhukov, S. Kovanko. Size 980*685 mm. Guarantee of authenticity.

All—Union Population Census of 1939 - the All-Union census was conducted as of January 17, 1939 instead of the 1937 census, the results of which were found to be defective (Resolution of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR of 25/IX 1937). Unlike the 1937 census, which took into account only the cash population, the 1939 census took into account the permanent and cash population. From January 12 to January 16, for the first time, the counters conducted a preliminary survey of their sites. The filling out of the census forms by the survey method began on January 17 and lasted 7 days (from January 17 to January 23) in urban settlements and 10 days (from January 17 to January 26) in rural areas.

Within 10 days after the completion of the census, a continuous control round was conducted. For the first time in the history of Russian and Soviet censuses, a control form was introduced, which was filled out for those who lived in this room, but were absent at the time of the census. The form contained the questions of the questionnaire. All the census takers who were temporarily residing or were going to leave were given a certificate that they had passed the census.

According to the census, the population of the country amounted to 170.6 million people, including 56.1 million urban people (33%). The development of census materials was mechanized and carried out over a period of 15 months at three special machine counting stations. Summary results were published in 1939-1940. The final results were published for individual indicators in 1947-1949 . The full results of the census were published in the early 1990s.

When summing up the results of the census, an amendment was introduced for the probable underestimation of the population: thus, another 3 million people were added to the number of actually rewritten citizens. Most experts consider this amount of correction for under-accounting to be overstated. Actually, the same opinion was held by I. V. Stalin, who confidentially informed the members of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPSU (b) that the real population within the original borders of the USSR (that is, excluding the former Polish territories) at the end of 1939 should be considered at 169.5 million people.