Artist: Gugunava, Grigory Vasil'evich — Гугунава, Григорий Васильевич
Printer: Izvetsiia (News) All-Union Central Executive Committee Typography Offset Print Shop — Офсет в типографии Известия ЦИК СССР и ВЦИК
Izvestiia (News) All-Union Central Executive Committee Typography Offset Print Shop was located in Moscow and it printed the Izvestiia newspaper. Both Izvestiia and Pravda (Truth) were the leading newspapers in the Soviet Union despite the Soviet-era joke that quipped, "there is no news in Pravda and no truth in Izvestia". Among the longest-running of all Russian newspapers, Izvestiia was founded in Petrograd (St. Petersburg) in March 1917 and was an organ of the Petrograd ...
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Publisher: Ogiz-IzoGiz, Moscow-Leningrad — Огиз-Изогиз, Москва-Ленинград
Ogiz was the Association of the State Book and Magazine Publishers. Its main offices were located in Moscow and in Leningrad. The Sovnarkom of the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic established Ogiz in 1930 to centralize publishing activities under a state monopoly in order to eliminate duplication of printed material, streamline and control publishing production and output, and to create a base for marketing books, training and technical manuals. In 1931, the Central Committee of the USSR ...
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