Viktor Semenovich Ivanov attended Moscow Secondary Professional Art School from 1926 to 1929. In 1928, he took classes at a studio of Dmitrii Kardovskii the Russian artist, illustrator and stage designer, and from 1929 to 1933, Ivanov continued his education at the Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture that was affiliated with the Russian Academy of Arts of Leningrad. In 1931, Viktor Ivanov began designing for the state publishing house Ogiz-Izogiz where he achieved acclaim as a prolific artist whose concentration ...

Zoria (Star) Typography was located in Dnepropetrovsk (Dnipro), a city on the Dnieper River in central Ukraine. The publisher-printer had two addresses in the city. One address was located at 7 Zhurnalistov Street and another was at 24 Osenniaia Street. Zoria was an illustrated journal of literature and culture and it ran from January 1925 to October 1934. Beginning in 1927, Zoria served as the organ of the Dnipropetrovsk VUSPP (All-Ukrainian Association of Proletarian Writers).

Plakat (All-Union Poster) was created in 1974 in Moscow through the work of the Union of Artists and the Central Committee of the Communist Party. The chief of its poster department was Dmitry Akimovich Isaev. Plakat publishers existed until 1991 whereupon it was renamed Panorama publishers.