Merry Pictures


Merry Pictures is a popular Soviet/Russian illustrated humorous magazine for young children.
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History

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 5.6 million copies monthly in 1971 and 9.5 million copies monthly in early 1980s.
During the Soviet era, several well-known writers and famous artists worked for the magazine.
In publishes verses, short stories and fairy tales, as well as board games, cartoons, rebuses, puzzles, etc. The magazine had several permanent columns. The magazine also held an annual competition for the best children's drawing.
It has a group of recurring fantasy characters, the " Club": Karandash, Samodelkin, Buratino, Cipollino, Neznayka, Thumbelina, Petrushka, and Gurvinek.