Konstantin Kazimirovich Urbetis was a Soviet graphic artist and cartoonist. During the 1920s, Urbetis began studying at the art studio of Dmitrii Nikolaevich Kardovskii, and in that same period, he attended the Handicraft and Industrial School of Moscow (a.k.a., Stroganov Art School) under the tutelage of Apollinarii Mikhailovich Vasnetsov, the noted Russian painter and graphic artist. Urbetis graduated 1930 from the Moscow-based VKhUTEIN (Higher Art and Technical Institute). Following graduation, around 1936, the artist became ...

The Typolithography Workshop named for V.V. Vorovskii was named in honor of Vatslav Vatslavovich Vorovskii (1871-1923) who was the head of Gosizdat (State Publishing House) from 1919 to 1920. After leaving Gosizdat, Vorovskii served as a diplomat for the Soviet Union. In 1923, he was assassinated in Lausanne, Switzerland. The printing house bearing his name was located in Moscow at 18 Dzerzhinskii Street, a thoroughfare that later was named Bolshaia Lubianka.

Ogiz was the Association of the State Book and Magazine Publishers. Its main offices were located in Moscow and in Leningrad. The Sovnarkom of the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic established Ogiz in 1930 to centralize publishing activities under a state monopoly in order to eliminate duplication of printed material, streamline and control publishing production and output, and to create a base for marketing books, training and technical manuals. In 1931, the Central Committee of the USSR ...