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[Soviet. VI World Festival of Youth and Students, 1957]. Volume postcard-envelope ”Lomonosov Moscow State University”. - Moscow: Artia, 1957. - 10,7x20,9 cm. - Description: Volume postcard-envelope, when opened is depicting the main building of Lomonosov Moscow State University (one of so called ”Stalin's high-rises”). Captions are in Russian, German and French. Dedicated to VI World Festival of Youth and Students. Information: The VI World Festival of Youth and Students is an international youth festival that was held on July 28, 1957 in Moscow. The guests of the festival were 34,000 people from 131 countries of the world. The slogan of the festival is ”For Peace and Friendship”. Moscow State University is a public research university in Moscow, Russia, and the most prestigious university in the country. The main building of University was built in 1949-1953 by architects Boris Iofan, Lev Rudnev, Sergey Chernyshev, Pavel Abrosimov, Alexander Khryakov and engineer Vsevolod Nasonov. Vera Mukhina's workshop worked on the sculptural design of the facades. Until the 1990s, the building was the tallest in Europe. Defects: By request.