Nikolai Nikolaevich Zhukov was a graphic designer, cartoonist and artist. Zhukov studied primary art education at the Nizhny Novgorod Art and Industrial College. In 1928 he enrolled the A.P. Bogolyubov Saratov Art College and graduated in 1930. After serving in the military he moved back to Moscow around 1932. During the Second World War, he was the artistic director of the Odessa-based "Studio of Military Artists named for Mitrofan Borisovich Grekov". From 1941 to 1945 he worked ...

Sergei Matveevich Kovan'ko lived in Kharkov and he worked in applied and industrial graphics for most of his career. He studied at the Architecture School of the Kharkov Art Institute in Ukraine. In the late 1920s and into the early 1930s, he illustrated Vsesvit (Universe) magazine in Kharkov and illustrated and designed books for the Young Guard publishing house, the Art publishing house and several other publications. Later in his life, he moved to Moscow ...

Gudok is the Russian word for whistle and it was also the name given to the railway industry newspaper in the Soviet Union. The newspaper's printing workshop was in Moscow at 7 Stankevich Street (formerly Voznesenskii Lane), a street named after Alexander Stankevich (1821-1912), the Russian writer, biographer and publisher. From the end of the nineteenth century until 1918, the location served as the printing house and editorial offices of the liberal newspaper "Russian News" (...

Izostat (All-Union Institute of Pictorial Statistics of Soviet Construction and Economy of the Central Administration of Economic Accounting) was formed in 1931. Its offices were located in Moscow at the State Planning Committee (Gosplan). At the time of its formation, there were two hubs for infographics established in the Soviet Union. There was the Leningrad (St. Petersburg) Otdel izobrazitel’noi statistiki (Department of Pictorial Statistics) of Lenizogiz (Leningrad Fine Arts Department of the State Publishing House), an...