Eduard Simonovich Artsrunian was a Soviet and Armenian painter and graphic artist. He studied in Leninakan at the Art School named after Sergei Merkurov. In 1944 Artsrunian entered the Art School named after Panos Terlemezian in Yerevan. From 1947 to 1951 he studied at the Leningrad (St. Petersburg) Academy of Arts of the USSR at the Ilya Repin Leningrad Institute of Art. In 1957 Artsrunian participated in the All-Union Art Exhibition in Moscow. throughout his career the artist participated ...

The Krasnii Proletarii Workshop originated under the ownership of Ivan Kushnerev, a Russian entrepreneur who founded the Kushnerev & Company Printing Shop in 1869 in Moscow. When Kushnerev died in 1896, his printing operation was one of the largest in Imperial Russia. In 1919, the printer was nationalized by the Soviets and consigned to the Printing Section of the Moscow Economic Council (MSNKh). Around 1920, it was placed under the Poligrafkiniga (Book and Magazine Printing) Trust and was given ...

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 ...