Eduard Simonovich Artsrunian was a Soviet and Armenian painter and graphic artist. He studied in Leninakan at the Art School named after Sergei Merkurov. In 1944 Artsrunian entered the Art School named after Panos Terlemezian in Yerevan. From 1947 to 1951 he studied at the Leningrad (St. Petersburg) Academy of Arts of the USSR at the Ilya Repin Leningrad Institute of Art. In 1957 Artsrunian participated in the All-Union Art Exhibition in Moscow. throughout his career the artist participated ...

The 1st Offset Printing Plant of the Lensovnarkhoz (Leningrad Economic Regional Council) was located near Kronverkskaia and Mir Streets in Leningrad (St. Petersburg). In the late 1950s until the early 1960s, the printer’s operations were managed by the UPP (Printing Industry Management) of Lensovnarkhoz but throughout its existence, the name of this printing plant changed depending on the various state-owned trusts that handled its management. Historically, the printer had roots in Imperial Russia as a ...

The history of IzoGiz begins with the formation of Ogiz, the Association of the State Book and Magazine Publishers. In 1930, the Sovnarkom of the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic established Ogiz to centralize publishing under a monopoly in order to eliminate duplication of printed material, to streamline and control publishing production and its output, and to create a base for marketing books, training and technical manuals. In 1931, the Central Committee of the USSR ordered certain ...