Rem Mikhailovich Dement'ev spent the majority of his professional career working in the graphic and illustrated arts. He studied at the Art Institute of the Estonian SSR where he graduated in 1956. After initiating his career, he worked at the Estonian Book Publishing House designing and illustrating books. Dement'ev also worked with the State Publishing House (Izogiz) and with the Military Publishing House of the Ministry of Defense of the USSR (Voenizdat MVC USSR). Rem Dement'ev ...

The Kalinin Poligrafkombinat (printing plant) was located at 5 Lenin Avenue (formerly Voroshilov Street) in the city of Kalinin (Tver) northwest of Moscow. Throughout its existence, the printer was allocated different names depending on the various state-owned trusts that handled its operations. For example, in the mid-1950s to early 1960s, the plant was a contract printer for Sovnarkhoz RSFSR (Regional Council of National Economy of the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic). Sovnarkhoz was an economic ...

The history of IzoGiz begins with the formation of Ogiz, the Association of the State Book and Magazine Publishers. In 1930, the Sovnarkom of the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic established Ogiz to centralize publishing under a monopoly in order to eliminate duplication of printed material, to streamline and control publishing production and its output, and to create a base for marketing books, training and technical manuals. In 1931, the Central Committee of the USSR ordered certain ...