Iurii Ivanovich Pimenov worked in the fields of painting, set design and graphic design throughout his career. He studied at VKHUTEMAS (Higher Art and Technical Workshops) in Moscow from 1920 to 1925. Pimenov was a founding member of OST (Obshchestvo khudozhnikov-stankovistov), the Society of Easel Artists that was formed in 1924. The Society had three inner groups: Projectionism, Concretivism, and the Group of Three (that contained Pimenov). When OST was terminated, he became a member of IzoBrigada (Art ...

Izvestiia (News) All-Union Central Executive Committee Typography Offset Print Shop was located in Moscow and it printed the Izvestiia newspaper. Both Izvestiia and Pravda (Truth) were the leading newspapers in the Soviet Union despite the Soviet-era joke that quipped, "there is no news in Pravda and no truth in Izvestia". Among the longest-running of all Russian newspapers, Izvestiia was founded in Petrograd (St. Petersburg) in March 1917 and was an organ of the Petrograd ...

Founded in Leningrad during the late 1920s, the State Scientific and Technical Publishing House also had offices in Moscow and in the Soviet Republics. In 1934, the publisher served as an editor under the banner of the Joint Scientific and Technical Publishing House of the People's Commissariat of Heavy Industry. According to the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1976), Stroiizdat (Publishing House of Construction Literature) supplanted the State Scientific and Technical Publishing House in 1932. However, research indicates Stroiizdat was ...