Employing the photographic montage techniques that characterized the artistic movement known as Constructivism, this poster’s transposition of soaring airplanes and smiling young men communicated the importance of aviation to the Soviet Union’s future and the importance of youth to the future of Soviet aviation.

The airplane appearing overhead with red stars on its wings is the ANT-20 Maxim Gorky. The world’s largest airplane at the time of its inaugural flight in June 1934, the Maxim Gorky flew for less than a year before meeting its tragic end in a mid-air collision.