The artist's name on the poster is not indicated. By assigning Artist Unknown to a poster it also could mean the artist used a chop mark whereby no signature is seen thus rendering the artist's identity anonymous.

The 5th Soviet Typo-lithography of the White Sea Military District operated in the city of Arkhangelsk during the Russian Civil War. The printer worked under the auspices of the Red Army producing posters, leaflets, and military literature. The Council of People's Commissars of the RSFSR established the White Sea Military District in early 1918. It was located within the territory of Arkhangelsk, Vologda, and Olonets provinces and incorporated the islands of the White Sea and a ...

Gosizdat was established in Moscow in May 1919 via the merger of the publishing departments of VTsIK (All-Russian Central Executive Committee), the Moscow Soviet, the Petrograd (St. Petersburg) Soviet, the People's Commissariat of the RSFSR, and others. Gosizdat was the first large-scale, state-controlled publisher formed with the purpose of joining the nation's printing and publishing entities under a single institution. While it existed somewhat independent of the government, by 1930 Gosizdat served as the base for the ...