Ivan Tikhonovich Kolochkov (1905-1961) was a graphic artist from Ivanovo Russia. During the Second Word War, he collaborated with the Ivanovo Regional State Publishing House designing posters. After graduating from Tver Art School in 1923, Kolochkov began working as an illustrator for Tverskaia Pravda [Tver Pravda]. There, his name was associated with the development of graphics and cartoons in the region. In 1927, the local newspaper Rabochii Krai (Working Territory) invited the artist to work for the ...

The Typography Publishing House of the Ivanovo Regional Soviet was located in the city of Ivanovo (a.k.a. Ivanovo-Voznesensk) at 6 Tipografskaia Street. Prior to 1921, the typography (and its paper mill) were the “trading house” of Petr Kashintsev.

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 ...