Moscow Olympics 1980 Pictograms

£350.00

Original vintage sport poster issued for the 1980 Summer Olympic Games in Moscow featuring bold, simple graphic illustrations depicting various Olympic sports including shooting, basketball, rowing, running, swimming, football, fencing, archery, horse riding, hockey, volleyball, cycling, gymnastics, weightlifting, judo and boxing on an athletics track with the title text in Russian and Olympic rings logo in white in the centre - Игры XXII Олимпиаде Москва 1980. The 1980 Summer Olympics / Games of the XXII Olympiad event held in the Soviet Union was the first Olympic Games held in Eastern Europe and the first Summer Olympic Games to be held in a communist country; 80 nations participated in the Moscow Olympics with 66 countries boycotting the Games due to the Soviet Afghan War. Good condition, folds, tears, creasing.

Country

Russia

Year

1979

Style

Sport Posters

Artist

A. Zhrebin

Size (cm)

88x56