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 Poligrafkombinat (printing plant) of Kalinin was the printer for Sovnarkhoz RSFSR (the Regional Council of National Economy of the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic). Sovnarkhoz was an economic reorganization that came about in 1957 when over 100 "economic regions" were created in the USSR to localize and reduce the inordinate role of state administered, top-down economics. The printer was located at 5 Lenin Avenue (formerly Voroshilov Street) in the city of Kalinin (Tver) northwest of ...

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 ...