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 1st Offset Printing Plant of the Lensovnarkhoz (Leningrad Economic Regional Council) was located near Kronverkskaia and Mir Streets in Leningrad (St. Petersburg). In the late 1950s until the early 1960s, the printer’s operations were managed by the UPP (Printing Industry Management) of Lensovnarkhoz but throughout its existence, the name of this printing plant changed depending on the various state-owned trusts that handled its management. Historically, the printer had roots in Imperial Russia as a ...

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 ...