Anatolii Antonovich Antonchenko was a Soviet graphic artist. Prior to the Second World War, he worked in the artistic department for advertising artists of the All-Union Chamber of Commerce. After the war, the artist was a designer for the state company "Intourist", and he elaborated a number of advertising posters for them such as "Visit the USSR" (1958). In addition, Antonchenko designed packaging for Krasnii Oktiabr' (Red October) Confectionery in Moscow. From ...

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 ...

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 ...