Boris Samoilovich Zhukov was a Soviet graphic artist and caricaturist. From 1927 to 1931 Zhukov studied at VKhUTEIN (Higher Art and Technical Institute) and the Moscow Polygraphic Institute. Thereafter, he ventured into the profession of graphic design illustrating and designing books for the State Publishing House of the Uzbek SSR. He also developed caricature illustrations for the newspapers Pravda Vostoka (Truth of the East), Kyzyl Uzbekiston (Red Uzbekistan), and for the Uzbek magazine Mushtuk (Fist). During the ...

Typography No. 4 was located in Tashkent, Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic. It was in operation during the 1950s. The typography was under the management of the Uzbek Polygraph Publishing trust that was formed in 1949 out of the Press Department of the Uzbek Republic.

Uzbek State Publishing was formed around 1924 and its main offices were located in the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic cities of Samarkand and Tashkent. The publisher was also known as Uzgosizdat in its Russian variant and Ѳznaşr in its Uzbek variant. In 1964, the publisher was renamed Uzbekistan State Publishing House. See Oznaşr (Uzbek State Publishing) for a more comprehensive history.