Dmitrii Ivanovich Piatkin was a Soviet painter, graphic artist and an Illustrator. The majority of the artist's work included landscapes, portraits and graphic design. During the 1940s, Dmitrii Piatkin completed four courses at the Moscow State Technical School of Fine Arts in Memory of the 1905 Revolution. He continued with additional studies at the Moscow State Academic Art Institute named for V.I. Surikov. During World War II, Piatkin served in the Red Army and participated ...

The Leningrad Offset Printing Plant was located near Kronverkskaia and Mir Streets in Leningrad (St. Petersburg). Historically, the printer had roots in Imperial Russia as a large operation founded in 1881 by Theodore Kibbel (Fedor Fyodorovich Kibbel') until it was nationalized by the Soviets in 1917. After its initial nationalization, the printer's management (via a series of government-controlled printing trusts) and its name both changed over the decades until it ultimately became the Leningrad Offset Printing Plant ...

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.