Framed reproduction of 1980 Moscow Olympics Poster – 'Let Peace Triumph' – Artist A. Merkushev

A museum-quality framed reproduction of one of the most quietly powerful posters from the 1980 Moscow Olympics — Anatoly Merkushev’s ‘Let Peace Triumph.’

The composition is deliberately minimal: a white dove in flight against a deep blue gradient, with a detailed gold Olympic medal suspended at the centre. Above it, in clean Cyrillic lettering — «PUSTY POBÉDIT MIR», Let Peace Triumph — the image carries the idealism that defined the Soviet Olympic project. Designed by Anatoly Fyodorovich Merkushev, a celebrated Soviet poster artist from Penza, it remains one of the more restrained and symbolically precise pieces from the Games of the XXII Olympiad.

The 1980 Moscow Games were a landmark moment in Cold War history — grand in scale, politically charged, and marked by the famous Western boycott. This design, with its graphic restraint and symbolic clarity, has become increasingly sought after by collectors of both Olympic memorabilia and Soviet graphic art.

Publication Details
Artist: Anatoly Fyodorovich Merkushev (A. Merkuhev), Penza city
Original year: 1980
Original publisher: Plakat, Moscow
Theme: XXII Summer Olympics, Moscow 1980
Style: Soviet Modernism

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Make a statement in any room with this framed poster, printed on thick matte paper. The matte black frame made from wood from renewable forests adds an extra touch of class.

• Each print is derived from an authenticated original held in the Red Archive Studio collection
• Original size: 42 × 65 cm (16.5 × 25.6 in)
• Frame size: 24 × 36 in (61 × 91 cm) — the closest standard size to the original
• Frame color: Black / Red Oak / White (select above)
• Paper thickness: 10.3 mil (0.26 mm) · 189 g/m²
• Frame depth: 0.75″ (1.9 cm) · Ayous wood from renewable forests
• Lightweight
• Acrylite front protector
• Hanging hardware included
• Blank product components in the US sourced from Japan and the US
• Blank product components in the EU sourced from Japan and Latvia

How to hang: place the mounting hook at the centre-top of the frame when hanging vertically.