Minimal published information is available on the artist A. Voloshin nor is there apparent data that reveals the artist's name. Voloshin produced a number of posters from 1939 until at least the mid-1970s. It is possible the artist used a pseudonym but this is not proven. According to published information, in March 1942, the art council of Iskusstvo Publishing and the editor of Ogonyok magazine were reprimanded for distributing a Voloshin poster that “distorted the im...

Gudok is the Russian word for whistle and it was also the name given to the railway industry newspaper in the Soviet Union. The newspaper's printing workshop was in Moscow at 7 Stankevich Street (formerly Voznesenskii Lane), a street named after Alexander Stankevich (1821-1912), the Russian writer, biographer and publisher. From the end of the nineteenth century until 1918, the location served as the printing house and editorial offices of the liberal newspaper "Russian News" (...

Iskusstvo was the Art Publishing House (A.K.A. Visual Arts Publishing) that was created in 1936 from Ogiz-Izogiz (State Art and Literature Publishing House). It disseminated books and journals dealing with graphic design and the fine arts, and it issued numerous posters. Since the Iskusstvo banner was part of the State Printing Works in Leningrad (St. Petersburg) and Moscow, its two main offices were located in those two cities.