Konstantin Kazimirovich Urbetis was a Soviet graphic artist and cartoonist. During the 1920s, Urbetis began studying at the art studio of Dmitrii Nikolaevich Kardovskii, and in that same period, he attended the Handicraft and Industrial School of Moscow (a.k.a., Stroganov Art School) under the tutelage of Apollinarii Mikhailovich Vasnetsov, the noted Russian painter and graphic artist. Urbetis graduated 1930 from the Moscow-based VKhUTEIN (Higher Art and Technical Institute). Following graduation, around 1936, the artist became ...

The State Publishing House had its origins in Imperial Russia as the Royal Print Yard of St. Petersburg. In 1917, the Soviets nationalized the print yard and requisitioned its presses. From requisitioning emerged the Publishing House of the Petrograd Soviet that was formed in the winter of 1917 by the Literary and Publishing Department of People's Commissariat for Education. In 1919, the State Publishing House in St. Petersburg changed its name to Petrogosizdat (Petrograd State Publishing) and in 1924, ...