Narkompros (Наркомпрос) is an abbreviation for the People's Commissariat for Public Education (Народный комиссариат просвещения). It was the term for the Ministry of Education in the early USSR. Its first head was Anatoly Lunacharsky.

Lunacharsky protected most of the avant-garde artists such as Vladimir Mayakovsky, Kazimir Malevich, Vladimir Tatlin and Vsevolod Meyerhold. Despite of his efforts, the official policy after Stalin put him in disgrace.

The Izo-Narkompros (Изо-наркомпрос), or the section dedicated to visual arts (izobrazitelnoye iskusstvo) was shortly under the command of Wassily Kandinsky who, however, was not well succeeded for his spiritualist ideas over art were not accepted by materialistic intelectuals. Back to Germany he would work at Bauhaus. Lunacharsky directed some of the great experiments in public arts after Revolution such as the Agit-Trains and Agit-boats, that circulated over all Russia spreading Revolution and revolutionary arts.

He also gave support to the constructivists theatrical experiments and the initiatives such as the ROSTA windows, revolutionary posters designed and written by Mayakovsky and Alexandr Rodchenko.