Alexander Mikhailovich Liubimov was Russian and Soviet-era painter, graphic artist, caricaturist, and art teacher. From 1895 to 1901, Liubimov studied at the School of Technical Drawing of Baron Alexander von Stieglitz in St. Petersburg. Thereafter, he continued at the Higher Art School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in the St. Petersburg Imperial Academy of Arts. After graduating in 1909, Liubimov managed the Kharkov Art School from 1912 to 1919. He reportedly was recommended for the job by the noted Russian ...

The Krasnii Proletarii Workshop originated under the ownership of Ivan Kushnerev, a Russian entrepreneur who founded the Kushnerev & Company Printing Shop in 1869 in Moscow. When Kushnerev died in 1896, his printing operation was one of the largest in Imperial Russia. In 1919, the printer was nationalized by the Soviets and consigned to the Printing Section of the Moscow Economic Council (MSNKh). Around 1920, it was placed under the Poligrafkiniga (Book and Magazine Printing) Trust and was given ...

Ogiz was the Association of the State Book and Magazine Publishers. Its main offices were located in Moscow and in Leningrad. The Sovnarkom of the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic established Ogiz in 1930 to centralize publishing activities under a state monopoly in order to eliminate duplication of printed material, streamline and control publishing production and output, and to create a base for marketing books, training and technical manuals. In 1931, the Central Committee of the USSR ...