There is little published information available on Anatolii Petrovich Biriukov. He was a Moscow-based graphic designer and a participant in All-Union and Republican art exhibitions. During his career he designed posters for a number of publishing houses such as Selkhozizdat (Agricultural Publishing) and Plakat (Poster). Biriukov was chiefly known for designing occupational safety posters and for posters with agricultural themes. He designed the following titles: “We are not like herbs, our union is mighty. We...

Zoria (Star) Typography was located in Dnepropetrovsk (Dnipro), a city on the Dnieper River in central Ukraine. The publisher-printer had two addresses in the city. One address was located at 7 Zhurnalistov Street and another was at 24 Osenniaia Street. Zoria was an illustrated journal of literature and culture and it ran from January 1925 to October 1934. Beginning in 1927, Zoria served as the organ of the Dnipropetrovsk VUSPP (All-Ukrainian Association of Proletarian Writers).

Plakat (All-Union Poster) was created in 1974 in Moscow through the work of the Union of Artists and the Central Committee of the Communist Party. The chief of its poster department was Dmitry Akimovich Isaev. Plakat publishers existed until 1991 whereupon it was renamed Panorama publishers.