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Merry Pictures (Russian: Весёлые картинки, romanized: Vesyolye Kartinki) is a Russian children's illustrated humorous magazine established in the Soviet Union in 1956. Its target audience is children of ages 4-11.[1] It had the largest circulation among the children's publications in the Soviet Union, reaching 9.5 million copies monthly in early 1980s.[2][3]
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).[3]
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