The Kukryniksy was an artistic collective formed by three cartoonists. The name of the collective was derived from the combined surnames of each member; Mikhail Kupriianov, Porfirii Krylov, and Nikolai Sokolov. The satirical Illustrations of the Kukryniksy were widely published in Soviet newspapers and magazines starting in the 1930s. Between the summer of 1941 and the spring of 1945, the three artists were an integral part of the TASS Windows studio in Moscow, designing at least seventy-four ...

1st Exemplary Ogiz RSFSR Typography Workshop of the Poligrafkniga Trust was located in Moscow at 28 Valovaia Street. Historically, the workshop began as the Sharapov-Sytin Partnerhip in the era prior to the Russian Revolution. Ivan Dmitrievich Sytin (1851-1934) was the son of a peasant. He opened a small print shop in Moscow using a single press and by the start of the 20th century his printing business (at Valovaia and Piatnitskaia streets) was the largest private ...

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.