Anatolii Vladimirovich Martynov was a Russian and Soviet graphic artist and painter. In 1890, Martynov graduated from the Poltava Cadet Corps. He went on to study at the Kazan Military School (1893-1894), and thereafter, he took classes at the Aleksandr Makovskii School of Painting and Drawing in St. Petersburg (1903). Martynov continued at the St. Petersburg Imperial Academy of Arts (1906-1907) where he was under the tutelage of noted artists Pyotr Alexandrovich Nilus, Kyriak Kostiantinovch Kostandi, and ...

Located in Kharkov in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic; the Chromolit Lithography was named in honor of Feliks Edmundovich Dzerzhinskii (1877-1926) who was head of the All-Russian Extraordinary Commission (VChK) internal police who were commonly referred to as the “Cheka”. During its history, the printer was also named the 1st Chromolit Lithography and it was overseen by the printing trust UPKPT (Management of Production and Technical Equipment).

Mistetstvo (Art Publishing House) was founded in Kharkov (Ukrainian SSR) between 1932-'34. It moved to Kiev in 1935. The publisher's chief output comprised of posters, portraits, artistic monographs and sheet music.