Nikolai Nikolaevich Kogout was one of the preeminent artists of the poster genre during Russia's early revolutionary period. In 1913, Kogout graduated from the Stroganov Central School of Industrial Art in Moscow and subsequently attended VKhUTEMAS [Higher Art and Technical Studios]. He contributed works to the seventh exhibition of the art group L'Araignée and exhibited at Galerie Devambe in Paris in 1925. During the Russian Civil War, Kogout designed posters from 1918 to 1920 for Revvoensovet, the propaganda d...

Moskust (Moskovskii kombinirovannyi kust) was a joint-stock company organized at the beginning of the New Economic Policy (NEP) era. It created a clustering of local industries in the Moscow region that were subordinate to the Revolutionary Military Council of the Republic (R.V.S.R.). Moskust published and printed its own informational material.