Konstantin Pavlovich Cheprakov was a Soviet graphic artist, painter and illustrator. His foray into art came naturally as he did not receive a formal art education at an early age. While he did study at the Odessa Drawing School until the age of 16, he did not graduate from the institution. Upon being drafted into the Red Army he became a military artist. At the completion of his service, Cheprakov enrolled in the Odessa Polytechnic School ...

Mikhail Voldemarovich Reich was a Soviet graphic artist, painter, and illustrator. The artist began his career starting in 1920 to 1923 at the Shock Movement School of Arts of the East (a.k.a. School of Oriental Arts) in Poltoratsk, Turkmen SSR (today, Ashgabat, Uzbekistan). While his education was not essentially artistic, he remained in the Uzbek SSR after his schooling to work as an illustrator for newspapers and magazines. This decision helped refined his illustration skills. ...

The Uzpoligrafkombinat (Uzbek Printing Plant) printed jobs for the NKMP (People's Commissariat of Local Industry). According to a host of published sources from the Soviet era, the Uzpoligrafkombinat based its operations in Tashkent, the capital city of the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic.