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Polygraphmash

Russian state foundry very active in the second half of the 20th century. MyFonts explains: "ParaType was established as a font department of ParaGraph International in 1989 in Moscow, Russia. At that time in the Soviet Union all typeface development was concentrated in one rather small group which belonged to a state research institute, Polygraphmash. It had the most complete and in fact the only one collection of Cyrillic typefaces. The collection included revivals of Cyrillic typefaces developed by Berthold and Lehmann type foundries established at the end of 19th century in St. Petersburg and artworks of Vadim Lazurski, Galina Bannikova, Nikolay Kudryashov and other masters of type and graphic design of Soviet time. ParaType became the first privately-owned type foundry in many years. A license agreement with Polygraphmash allows ParaType to manufacture and distribute their typefaces. Most of Polygraphmash staff designers soon moved to ParaType." Designers included Vera Chiminova, Igor Zhikharev, Mihail Grigorevich Rovenskiy, Svetlana Yermolaeva, Henrik Mnatsakanyan, Elvira Slysh, Vadim Vladimirovich Lazurski, Solomon Telingater, Elena Tzaregorodtseva, Emma Zakharova, Lyubov Alexeyevna Kuznetsova, Nikolay Nikolayevich Kudryashev, and Zinaida Maslennikova.

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