Originally produced for Polygraphmash’s (the largest of the Soviet state-run printing and design firms) type design bureau in 1968 by letterer and type designer Anatoly Shchukin , Ladoga was the first successful attempt to emulate a Renaissance antiqua in Cyrillic. It went on to be an extremely successful release for Shchukin, and was a very common book face all across the Soviet Union throughout the 1970s

Originally produced for Polygraphmash’s (the largest of the Soviet state-run printing and design firms) type design bureau in 1968 by letterer and type designer Anatoly Shchukin, Ladoga was the first successful attempt to emulate a Renaissance antiqua in Cyrillic. It went on to be an extremely successful release for Shchukin, and was a very common book face all across the Soviet Union throughout the 1970s.

Viktor Kharik – whom we hope to see much more from in the future – has completed this version of Ladoga, which is much more than simply a revival of a photolettering type. This new design not only includes the entirety of the original Ladoga character set, but adds a huge number of characters, such as a number of contemporary alternates for many of the historical figures. It even includes full alphabets: the new Ladoga has support for all modern languages based on Latin and Cyrillic scripts, Greek alphabet (including polytonic extension), Hebrew and historical Cyrillic letters.

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Paratype’s Ladoga