The first issues of the “Plasticheskie Massy” Magazine were drafted in 1931 in Leningrad, approved for publishing and issued in 1932 in 1,000 copies. Prof. Ushakov, First Head of Plastics Engineering Chemistry of Leningrad Technology Institute, was the Science Editor of the magazine. By 1935 the number of copies reached 2,100. The 1931–1935 issues gave an insight into the beginnings of the plastics industry and processing development. The publishing, however, was stopped in 1935.    

The new history of the magazine with the old name began in 1959, after the 1958 Plenum of the CPSU Central Committee of on chemicalisation of the national economy. The magazine was an organ of the USSR State Committee of Council of Ministers on Chemistry and published by Goskhimizdat in Moscow. Mr. Mikhail Garbar, one of the founders of plastics industry, Head of Chemical Industry Department of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance, was appointed Chief Editor of the reinstated periodical.

The magazine was aimed at engineers and technicians, qualified personnel, members of R&D and design institutes, higher education teaching personnel of relevant institutions. It contained information on all prospective areas of plastics, their processing and application. Its value was hard to describe as it was the only specialised periodic publication in this industry of technology and industry in the USSR.

In 1992, after the death or Mr. Garbar, Professor Vladislav Kovriga was appointed Chief Editor upon the recommendation of the Ministry of Chemical Industry. He faced an enormous challenge of keeping the scientific and technical journal in its specialised scientific course amidst perestroika, destruction of scientific schools and technical centres and cessation of state financing. The survival of the magazine must be credited to him.

The Magazine is currently keeping its agenda offering authors to publish their scientific and research works of a wide-range of aspects of polymeric science.