Anatolii Martinovich Bondarovich was a Soviet painter, graphic artist, and teacher. He studied at Kharkov Art School from 1911 to 1914 under the tutelage of Mikhail Andrіaovich Berkos, the noted Ukrainian artist. Anatolii Bondarovich spent the early part of his life in Kharkov, Ukraine. He later moved to Tashkent, Uzbek SSR where he taught at the Tashkent Art School from 1933 to 1935. After the Second World War, the artist taught at the Kiev School of Decorative and A...

The Kharkov-based printing school was named in honor of Andrei Vasil’evich Baginskii (A.V. Baginskii), а printer and a Bolshevik representative of the Kiev Soviet. Baginskii was also a member of the Red Guard during the Russian Civil War. Around 1930, the name of the school was changed to the Ivan Fedorov Ukrainian Polygraphic Institute.

Knigospilka was the All-Ukrainian Cooperative Book Merchandising and Publishing Union. Based in Kharkov, Ukraine, it operated from 1920 to 1929. While it occasionally published posters, its chief task was turning out books and literature for use in Consumers' Societies, Workers' and Transport Societies, and for the rural population in Ukraine. To that end, the publisher played a role in the implementation of Communist Party policy in the countryside. After 1922, Knigospilka concentrated on publishing informational literature concerning agriculture ...