Grigorii Solomonovich Bershadskii was a Soviet graphic artist, painter and illustrator. He began his artistic studies (from 1908 to 1913) in the Astrakhan-based studio of Pavel Alekseevich Vlasov. Around 1913, Bershadskii attended the Odessa Art School. From 1920 to 1923, the artist worked in Kharkov, and then he moved to Moscow. Beginning in 1919, Bershadskii started designing and illustrating books for the state-owned publishing houses of the Soviet Union. Vladimir Mayakovskii's work, "Flying Proletarian" (1925), was one title designed by ...

Transpechat' (Transport Printing) was a state-owned trust that disseminated advertising and literature for the NKPS (People's Commissariat of Transportation and Communication). The trust oversaw a number of printers in the USSR and its headquarters was located in Moscow at 46 Bol'shaia Pereiaslavskaia Street.

MSPO (Moscow Central Union of Consumers' Societies) was established in 1898 and it gained significant membership throughout Imperial Russia after 1907. After its reorganization by the Soviet government, MSPO became part of an association of consumer unions and its name was changed to the Central Union of Consumers' Societies (Tsentrosoiuz). In May 1921, Tsentrosoiuz became the single government agency responsible for distribution of wholesale consumer goods in the country.