The artist's name on the poster is not indicated. By assigning Artist Unknown to a poster it also could mean the artist used a chop mark whereby no signature is seen thus rendering the artist's identity anonymous.

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" (...

Societies of Assistance to the Defense and Aviation-Chemical Construction of the USSR (Osoaviakhim) was established in 1925-1926 via the merger of Dobrokhim, the Voluntary Society of Friends of Chemical Defense and Chemical Industry and of ODAF, the Society of Friends of the Air Force. In 1948, Osoaviakhim was re-structured into three societies: the Voluntary Society of Assistance to the Army (DOSARM), the Voluntary Society of Assistance to the Air Force (DOSAV) and the Voluntary Society of ...