Two linotypists working on Russian-made Linotype machines (of the МАКСА ГЕЛЬЦА brand, production of which probably started in Leningrad in the early 1930s).
This picture is featured as an illustration between pages 80 and 81 of Ivor Montagu’s Land of Blue Sky (London: Dennis Dobson, 1956). It purports to have been taken at “The modernized Sukhe Bator printing works”, and credits for the picture are given to “the Mongolian Press” on page 8.
