Located in Moscow at 99 Iaroslavskoe Highway, the Graphic Art Printing Plant was named for Viacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov (1890-1986), Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs. Based on Soviet-era sources, the printing plant existed at least as far back as the 1930s. During its history, the plant was a contract printer for Glavpoligrafizdat (Main Administration for Matters of Polygraphic Industry Publishing and Book Selling), and it was under the printing trusts of Soiuzpoligrafprom (All-Union Association of Printing Enterprises) ...

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.