Konstantin Pavlovich Cheprakov was a Soviet graphic artist, painter and illustrator. His foray into art came naturally as he did not receive a formal art education at an early age. While he did study at the Odessa Drawing School until the age of 16, he did not graduate from the institution. Upon being drafted into the Red Army he became a military artist. At the completion of his service, Cheprakov enrolled in the Odessa Polytechnic School ...

The Uzpoligrafkombinat (Uzbek Printing Plant) printed jobs for the NKMP (People's Commissariat of Local Industry). According to a host of published sources from the Soviet era, the Uzpoligrafkombinat based its operations in Tashkent, the capital city of the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic.