Nikolai Semenovich Babin was a Soviet and Russian graphic artist with the principal field of his work centering on poster art. Babin studied at the Krasnodar Art School from 1948 to 1951 (some sources indicate 1950) and he continued his studies from 1955 to 1958 at the Moscow Regional Art Pedagogical School of 1905. As a poster artist, Babin collaborated with the Soviet publishing houses “Fine Art” and “Plakat” in addition to designing posters for the USSR Art Fund (i.e., Ag...

The Moscow Typography Workshop No. 5 was located at 21 Little-Moscow Street in the capital of the USSR. According to Soviet publications from the 1960s, the Moscow Typography served as a contract printer for Sovetskii Khudozhnik (Soviet Artist), the publishing house of the Artists’ Union of the USSR. For a period during the mid-1960s, the printer was under the management of Glavpoligrafprom (Main Directorate of the Printing Industry), and during the mid-1970s, the Moscow Typography be...

Sovietskii Khudozhnik (Soviet Artist) was a publishing house that chiefly served the Artists’ Union of the USSR. The publishing house was founded in Moscow in 1946 and it turned out illustrated monographs on contemporary artists and collections. It also published art reproductions, postcards and art books, art catalogs, brochures and posters. During a reorganization of the publishing sector in the USSR in 1964, Soviet Artist merged with Izogiz, the fine arts section of Ogiz (Association of the St...