There was time when certificates of honor were stylistically perfect works of art

As, for example, here this constructivist diploma which has been handed over to the employee of the Bashkir mechanical technical school. Her founder, the artist Sergei Sokolov, did not consider shameful to record on it the fact of the authorship. It is known of it very little. Was born in 1893, graduated from the Moscow school sculpture and architecture (MUZhVZ) painting, worked in a poster genre. And here I know of the Bashkir mechanical technical school even less...