Isaak Khaskelevich Grinshtein was a Soviet graphic artist, illustrator and book designer. He was born in what is today Eastern Ukraine. Grinshtein studied at the Art Institute of Odessa from 1925 to 1930 and after graduation, he was a school teacher (until 1933) whereupon he moved to Moscow. Having a background in graphic art, Grinshtein worked extensively designing for Ogonek [Campfire], Smena [Change], Molodoi kolkhoznik [Young Collective Farmer], and other major Soviet monthlies. In addition to his...

The Dunaev printing plant was located at 9 Bolshaia Polianka in Moscow. Headquartered inside the former Menert Brothers printing plant, during the 1920s, the firm was named in honor of the Bolshevik leader Evlampii Dunaev (1877-1919) who served as assistant chairman of the Soviet of Nizhny Novgorod. Dunaev was also a member of the provisioning committee and he served on the Nizhny Novgorod Council of Local Economy. During the Civil War, he reportedly died from typhus. ...

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 ...