Boris Alexandrovich Zelenskii began his artistic instruction in Leningrad. From 1925 to 1927 he attended the studios of Savelii Moiseevich Zeidenberg (Seidenberg) and continued at the studio of Konstantin Fyodorovich Yuon in Moscow from 1930 to 1932. Furthering his education at the Moscow Art School (1932 to 1933), he continued at Sergi Ivanovich Frolov’s workshop. He completed his education at the Kalinin School of Art in Moscow. Beginning in 1931, Zelenskii took an interest in graphic art. He initially perused a ca...

Iskra Revolutsii was a Moscow printer that was also known as the 15th Iskra Revolutsii Typography Workshop. Over the decades, the printer was under a host of printing trusts such as Soiuzpoligrafprom (All-Union Association of Printing Enterprises) that handed jobs for the state publisher Glavizdat (Main Administration of Publishing Houses, Printing Industry and Book Trade). Iskra Revolutsii was also managed by Glavpoligrafizdat (Main Administration for Matters of Polygraphic Industry Publishing and Book Selling), a trust ...

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.