Russian Telegraph Agency

In 1904, Minister of Finance Vladimir Kokovtsov argued for a state telegraph news agency by saying that private owners were not reliable.

[2][3] During the October Revolution, Petrograd Telegraph Agency's building was occupied by Baltic sailors under the leadership of Leonid Stark.

On 18 November 1917, Council of People's Commissars decreed that the Petrograd Telegraph Agency will be the central information body.

The resolution of the Council of People's Commissars of the RSFSR required all media to reprint the decrees of the Soviet government and the latest news received through ROSTA channels.

In March 1935, by decree of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee and the Council of People's Commissars of the RSFSR, ROSTA was liquidated, and its functions were transferred to TASS.

He was soon joined by Vladimir Mayakovsky, a popular and prolific author, Dmitry Moor (1883-1946), Amshey Nurenberg (1887-1979), Alexander Rodchenko, Mikhail Volpin and others.

[9] The design featured graphical simplicity suitable for viewing from distance and often used lubok-styled sequences of pictures according to some plot, similar to modern comics.