Igor' Aleksandrovich Kominarets was a Soviet graphic artist and illustrator who chiefly worked in the field of poster design. Having a skill for drafting, his designs were distinguished by their precise technical execution. Kominarets received his art education at VGIK (All-Union State Institute of Cinematography) in Moscow. Throughout his professional career, the artist designed posters for the publishing houses of Iskusstvo (Art), IzoGiz (State Publishing House of Fine Art), Plakat (Poster), and Enlightenment (Prosveshchenie). Kominarets ...

Vladimir Petrovich Vladimirov was a Soviet graphic artist. From 1946 to 1951, he studied at MIPIDI (Moscow Institute of Applied and Decorative Arts) under the artist Pavel Petrovich Sokolov-Skalia. Vladimirov worked chiefly as a poster designer. His poster designs were published by Izobrazitel'noe Iskusstvo (Fine Arts) publishing, and he worked with Agitplakat, a poster collective. Additionally, the artist worked as an illustrator for Vneshtorgizdat (All-Union Foreign Trade Publishing), an organization in the USSR that published commerce and ...

The Poligrafkombinat (printing plant) of Kalinin was the printer for Sovnarkhoz RSFSR (the Regional Council of National Economy of the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic). Sovnarkhoz was an economic reorganization that came about in 1957 when over 100 "economic regions" were created in the USSR to localize and reduce the inordinate role of state administered, top-down economics. The printer was located at 5 Lenin Avenue (formerly Voroshilov Street) in the city of Kalinin (Tver) northwest of ...

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.