Alexandra Georgievna Platunova was a versatile artist working with paintings, book and magazine graphics, bookplates and prints. She excelled in portraits, landscapes, abstract-ornamental and symbolic-allegorical compositions. Platunova studied at the Kazan Art School and graduated from the Kazan Art Institute in 1922. Early-on she created covers for the magazine "Kazan Museum Bulletin" and for the Tatar book "Zora Yulduz" (1922) by Zakhoda Iffat . In 1929, Platunova participated in a closed All-Union competition for the ...

Mospoligraf was a state-owned printing trust located in Moscow. When the Soviet Union formulated a plan in 1921 to consolidate the nation’s largest and best printing operators into state-owned trusts; Mospoligraf was organized in 1922 to carry out consolidation of the Moscow printing industry. With a staff of over two thousand, Mospoligraf was the second-largest printing trust organized in Moscow outside of the Mospechat’ trust, and it oversaw a myriad of houses under local printing sections such...

The Association of Artists of the Revolution was an artist cooperative from 1928 to 1932. From 1922-1928 it was called the Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia. During the 1920s, the Association rose to prominence in the Soviet art world. It opened branches throughout the USSR, and it operated its own publishing house in Moscow at 25 Tsvetnoi Boulevard. The Association was abolished in 1932 when the government centralized a majority of independent arts organizations in the USSR.