Boris Naumovich Belopol'skii was a multi-talented artist. While his chief concentration was in graphic art, Belopol'skii was also known as a painter and a monumentalist. A 1928 graduate of the Kharkov Art Institute, he lived in Kharkov until 1941 whereupon he moved to Moscow. During the 1930s the artist began designing posters. His artistic style incorporated photomontage and illustrative realism. Belopol’skii designed posters for Iskusstvo (Art) Publishing House whereby he generated a significant number of titles co...

Dmitrov Offset Printing Plant (a.k.a. 2nd Offset Printing Plant) was located at 3 Moskovskaia Street in the city of Dmitrov north of Moscow. For a period during the 1960s, the printing plant was under the management of Rosglavpoligrafprom (Main Administration of the Printing Industry). Dmitrov Offset Printing served as a contract printer for Sovetskaia Rossiia (Soviet Russia) Publishing. Created in May 1957, Soviet Russia Publishing was under the aegis of the Ministry of Culture RSFSR (...

The Moscow-based Sovietskaia Rossiia (Soviet Russia) Publishing House was created in 1957. Its operations were under the aegis of the Ministry of Culture RSFSR (Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic). The publisher disseminated works concerning popular and social sciences, children's literature, political propaganda, the fine arts, and they published a host of periodicals. The formation of Sovietskaia Rossiia led to the replacement of Goskul'tprosvetizdat (State Publishing House for Culture and Education).