Aleksei Alekseevich Kapitan was a Soviet graphic artist. He also was the brother of Leonid Kapitan, a noted mosaic designer in the Soviet Union. Aleksei Kapitan graduated in 1955 from the Kiev Art Institute where he studied under Vasili Il’ich Kasiian, the celebrated Ukrainian painter and graphic artist. Throughout his life, Aleksei Kapitan worked in the fields of easel graphics and political posters. Starting in the late 1950s, the artist participated in poster competitions both Re...

There is little published information available on the artist Viktor Petrovich Kucherenko. He worked in Voroshilovgrad (Luhansk) for a majority of his life and graduated from the Kiev State Art Institute in 1965. Kucherenko is known for his industrial landscapes and narrative paintings. He participated in Republican exhibitions such as the Jubilee Art Exhibition held on the anniversary of the Ukrainian SSR (1969). In 1970, Viktor Petrovich Kucherenko became a member of the Union of Artists of the ...

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.