Stanislav Mikhailovich Zabaluev studied at the Savitskii Penza Artist School and Artist College from 1943 to 1948. After graduating, Zabaluev continued his artistic education at the Surikov Art Institute in Moscow (1948–1954) where he was under the tutelage of Mikhail Cheremnykh, a noted Russian/Soviet artist and poster designer. After graduation, Zabaluev worked at Izogiz Publishing where he designed posters. At Izogiz he partnered with artists Igor Kominarets, Viacheslav Naryshkin and Vladimir Sachkov to collaborate on various po...

The 1st Exemplary Typography Workshop was named in honor of Andrei Alexandrovich Zhdanov (1896-1948), a Soviet military leader and a senior member of the Politburo who died in 1948. Reportedly, Andrei Zhdanov controlled the atomic espionage division of the USSR and he was Josef Stalin's closest confidant. Historically, the 1st Exemplary Typography Workshop began as the Sharapov-Sytin Partnerhip, a printing workshop formed before the Russian Revolution. Ivan Dmitrievich Sytin (1851-1934) was the son of a peasant. ...

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 ...