Nikolai Mikhailov (known by his alias N. Diomidi) was born into a military family. He studied at the Kazan Art School from 1912 to 1918. In 1919 during the Russian Civil War, he fled Kazan with the retreating White Army and made his way to China where he worked as an artist in the Russian Theater at Harbin. In 1923, Mikhailov returned to Russia and settled in a Moscow suburb. In 1932 he was accepted into the Artists Union of ...

In his youth, Pavel Petrovich Sokolov-Skalia worked as an apprentice in the studio of Il’ia Mashkov, one of Imperial Russia's modern masters. He continued his education at VKhUTEMAS (Higher Art and Technical Studios) and he later became a founding member of the avant-garde collective Bytie (Being). When the group dissolved around 1926, he joined the A.Kh.R. (Association of Artists of the Revolution) and he served as one of its lead teachers. Sokolov-Skalia also ta...

The 13th State Typography of Ogiz was located in Moscow at 30 Denisovkii Lane. While the typography worked contractually for Ogiz (Association of the State Book and Magazine Publishers), it is documented as having been under the printing trusts of Soiuzpoligrafprom (All-Union Association of Printing Enterprises) and Glavpoligrafprom (Main Directorate of the Printing Industry). Per Soviet-era sources from the early 1930s, the printer was known as the 1st Journal Printing House of ONTI (United Scientific and ...

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 ...