• Source: Merry Pictures

      • Merry Pictures (Russian: Весёлые картинки, romanized: Vesyolye Kartinki) is a popular Soviet/Russian illustrated humorous magazine for young children. It has been published since September 1956. Its target audience is children of ages 4-11. It had the largest circulation among the children's publications in the Soviet Union, reaching 9.5 million copies monthly in early 1980s.
      In publishes verses, short stories and fairy tales, as well as board games, cartoons, rebuses, puzzles, etc.
      It has a group of recurring fantasy characters, the "Merry Little Folks Club": Karandash ("Pencil", and artist), Samodelkin ("Do-It-Yourself"), Buratino, Cipollino, Neznayka, Thumbelina, Petrushka, and Gurvinek (Czhech puppet Hurvínek).


      See also


      Murzilka


      References




      External links


      Magazine website
      Весёлые картинки, covers of all issues

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