Boris Ivanovich Lebedev was a Soviet graphic artist, illustrator, and a poster artist. In 1929 he graduated from the Saratov Art College and soon thereafter, he was granted a position at the newspaper Southern Kazakhstan Pravda. Lebedev also worked at the newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda and at the Diafilm (filmstrip) factory. In 1941, Lebedev moved to Penza (in Western Russia) where he was put in charge of running the art department of the Stalinskoye Znamya newspaper. During World ...

The Kishinev Poligrafkombinat (printing plant) was located at 32 Gostpital’naia Street in Chișinău (Kishinev in Russian variant), the capital of the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic.

The Moldavia (Moldovan) State Publishing House was formed after 1940. Its offices were based in the capital city of Chişinău (Kishinev) and in Bacău. The Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic was the first state in history formed on the basis of nationality, a term used by the Soviet Union at the time. The republic was formed in August 1940 by combining Bessarabia (a historical region in Eastern Europe) with parts of the former Moldavian Autonomous Rep...