Konstantin Mikhailovich Antonov was a Soviet painter and graphic artist. He studied at the Moscow Secondary Art School from 1936 to 1941. After leaving the school, Antonov received a recommendation for an expedited admission into the Moscow State Art Institute. During his first year there, the Second World War began. Antonov served on the First Ukrainian Front with the 10th division RVGK (Artillery Reserve of the Supreme High Command). He attained the rank of sergeant and was ...

The Leningrad Offset Printing Plant was located near Kronverkskaia and Mir Streets in Leningrad (St. Petersburg). Historically, the printer had roots in Imperial Russia as a large operation founded in 1881 by Theodore Kibbel (Fedor Fyodorovich Kibbel') until it was nationalized by the Soviets in 1917. After its initial nationalization, the printer's management (via a series of government-controlled printing trusts) and its name both changed over the decades until it ultimately became the Leningrad Offset Printing Plant ...

Plakat (All-Union Poster) was created in 1974 in Moscow through the work of the Union of Artists and the Central Committee of the Communist Party. The chief of its poster department was Dmitry Akimovich Isaev. Plakat publishers existed until 1991 whereupon it was renamed Panorama publishers.