Oleg Dmitrievich Masliakov was a Soviet-based graphic artist. In his youth, he lived in the city of Tula. He graduated in 1960 from the Moscow Regional Art Pedagogical School of 1905 (a.k.a. Surikov Institute). At the Institute, he studied under Nikolai Ponomarev and Mikhail Cheremnykh, two noted Soviet poster artists of the era. In the years after graduating from the institute, Masliakov designed film posters. He went on to collaborate with the poster workshop Agitplakat, ...

Kommunar Publishing was located in the city of Tula at 150 Friedrich Engels Street. The publishing house issued the newspaper “Kommunar”.

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.