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College of Printing Arts

Printing school in Moscow, Russia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ5146813 ↗
Source-derived summary

Polygraph college No. 56 is an educational institution in Moscow. The College provides professional vocational education in the printing industry.

Training focuses on basic and advanced levels of primary and secondary education. At the end of college, graduates are awarded the qualification and level.

Departments

Sovkhoznaya ulitsa, 2

Former Polygraph Lyceum No. 314 was created in September 1977. The school repeatedly changed its status. It has trained about 4.5 thousand professionals from 12 professions for the printing industry.

Poltavskaya ulitsa, 3

Former vocational school No.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “College of Printing Arts” is printing school in Moscow, Russia. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through College, Printing and Arts, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA strong contextual entry point for chronology, institutions and public events when official records are distinguished from later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1977—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1922. For this dossier, College, Printing and Arts is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “printing school in Moscow, Russia” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Contemporary correspondence, administrative files and participant testimony can test how later narratives organized the event or institution. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 15, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5146813. Authority coordinates are 55.669, 37.743. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1977.

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This entry incorporates text from “College of Printing Arts” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.