User @cgrau is the most knowledgable of Soviet era sets, check some of their past posts on the subject. He provides a history of the most notable sets.
I have not seen a designer attributed to any Soviet sets (I'm still trying to find details about Alexey Poni for a different set). Even manufacturer can be difficult to assertain do to pooling of common resources for efficiency (and penal colonies were often used to manufacture sets).
This might be helpful: https://sovietchesssets.com/gallery/
User @cgrau is the most knowledgable of Soviet era sets, check some of their past posts on the subject. He provides a history of the most notable sets.
I have not seen a designer attributed to any Soviet sets (I'm still trying to find details about Alexey Poni for a different set). Even manufacturer can be difficult to assertain do to pooling of common resources for efficiency (and penal colonies were often used to manufacture sets).
This might be helpful: https://sovietchesssets.com/gallery/
Thanks! Yeah I find it difficult to find the designers in general, even with modern sets. That’s so unfortunate, because I would love to know more about their particular design language and other sets they’ve worked on.
Besides Alexey Poni, the only Soviet designers I was able to find were Pero Poček, who designed the Dubrovnik set; and Andrija Maurović, who updated its design in 1960.
The Chess Empire did a reproduction of the Soviet Shkolnik set below, and on their Etsy page I saw a reviewer mention it’s a 1920s Soviet set. Yet ERWoodLeather.Shop attributes it to the 1970s. Does anyone have more information on when this set emerged? Do you know any prominent chess players who used it? Do you happen to know who designed or produced it?