Igor' Aleksandrovich Kominarets was a Soviet graphic artist and illustrator who chiefly worked in the field of poster design. Having a skill for drafting, his designs were distinguished by their precise technical execution. Kominarets received his art education at VGIK (All-Union State Institute of Cinematography) in Moscow. Throughout his professional career, the artist designed posters for the publishing houses of Iskusstvo (Art), IzoGiz (State Publishing House of Fine Art), Plakat (Poster), and Enlightenment (Prosveshchenie). Kominarets ...

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 ...

The history of IzoGiz begins with the formation of Ogiz, the Association of the State Book and Magazine Publishers. In 1930, the Sovnarkom of the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic established Ogiz to centralize publishing under a monopoly in order to eliminate duplication of printed material, to streamline and control publishing production and its output, and to create a base for marketing books, training and technical manuals. In 1931, the Central Committee of the USSR ordered certain ...