Prior to his professional life as a graphic artist and an architect, Naum Grigorievich Borov studied and graduated (in 1930) from VKhUTEIN (Higher Art and Technical Institute). Borov worked as a designer, artist and decorator of mass celebrations. As an architect, he worked in the design studios of Mossovet (city administration of Moscow) engaged in interior decoration, architectural and urban decor. During World War II, he served as a lieutenant and company commander on the Karelian ...

Grigorii Samulovich Zamskii was born in western Russia. He studied painting in Moscow at VKHUTEMAS - VKHUTEIN (Higher Art and Technical Institute) from 1923 to 1930. Thereafter, the artist lived in Moscow where he worked primarily as a monumentalist and as a graphic designer. Zamskii was involved in the design of the Crimean pavilion at the All-Union Agricultural Exhibition in 1923 and he worked on the Soviet pavilion for the Milan International Samples Fair of 1926 in addition to ...

OSVOD began as a voluntary water lifesaving organization in the 1870s in Imperial Russia. The Imperial-based entity was formed to prevent accidents, teach swimming and rescue techniques, assist in rescues, develop rescue equipment, overcome problems of water rescue, and to regulate amateur boating. In 1918, the lifesaving organization was placed under the Soviet government's Department of Water Transport. In 1925 the Council of People’s Commissars established OSNAV (Central Committee of the Society for Water Rescue) within th...

Ogiz was the Association of the State Book and Magazine Publishers. Its main offices were located in Moscow and in Leningrad. The Sovnarkom of the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic established Ogiz in 1930 to centralize publishing activities under a state monopoly in order to eliminate duplication of printed material, streamline and control publishing production and output, and to create a base for marketing books, training and technical manuals. In 1931, the Central Committee of the USSR ...