Alexei Vasilievich Marenkov was a graphic artist and arts educator in the Soviet Union. For the initial part of his artistic schooling, he studied drawing under the tutelage of the German artist Werner Ernst Hoffmann. From 1905 to 1912, Marenkov was enrolled in the Kiev Art School where he was graduated. After obtaining his education, Marenkov worked in the field of book illustration. Following the collapse of Tsarist Russia in 1917, Marenkov served as an illustrator on the ...

The 2nd Soviet Typography Workshop was located at 4 Pushkin Street in Kiev, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. Over a period of management changes through the years, the printer was also known as the Photo-Lithography Workshop as well as the Soviet Printing Office.

The State Publishing House had its origins in Imperial Russia as the Royal Print Yard in St. Petersburg. As the Red Army controlled more provinces and cities in former Imperial Russia, the State Publishing House developed offices outside St. Petersburg. Kiev was a major city of Imperial Russia as well as of the USSR. Once Soviet control was established in Ukraine, publishing was concentrated in the State Publishing House that existed from 1919-1930. Today, Kiev ...