Photobook For Youths from Biblionne

Limited to 15000 + 100 copies. The Soviet icebreaker Krassin took part in the Umberto Nobile's North Pole expedition rescue operation. The writer Emily Mindlin (1900-1981), was one of the crew members. The original edition of Mindlin's novel was published in Russian in 1929 and republished in many soviet nations' languages. This edition was issued in Jaᶇalif - the… Read more about this item

Limited to 7000 copies. The Soviet icebreaker Krassin took part in the Umberto Nobile's North Pole expedition rescue operation. The writer Emily Mindlin (1900-1981), was one of the crew members. The original edition of Mindlin's novel was published in Russian in 1929 and republished in many soviet nations' languages. This edition was issued in Jaᶇalif - the first Latin… Read more about this item

50000 copies were printed. This children's photobook tells the history of the Magnitogorsk Metallurgical Plant and gives an overview of the manufacturing process at the plant. It also includes a small article about the hard everyday life of American laborers and the unemployment rate in America. Magnitogorsk, an industrial city in Chelyabinsk Oblast, was established in 1929 and modeled after two of… Read more about this item

Limited to 10 000 copies. In 1928 Mikhail Loris-Melikov (1905-1936) was a meteorologist at the icebreaker Malygin during the rescue operation of the Umberto Nobile's dirigible expedition. The book is devoted to this expedition. Loris-Melikov was born in Paris. Almost no details are known about its origins, but he related to an old noble family that belonged to Georgia's top aristocratic society.… Read more about this item

Moskva, Izdvo "Detskiy mir", 1963. This children's photobook is devoted to one happy and amazing summer day of Oleg Popov (1930-2016), the prominent Soviet clown, and his daughter. We couldn't trace any copy of this edition in US libraries. OCLC locates one copy of this edition only: in the Berlin State Library.

Popular edition for children about rivers, channels and ships illustrated with photos and photomontages. It includes story about SS Leviathan, photos of semidreadnought Lord Nelson and South Carolina-class battleships. There is distinguished story about Special Expedition for Underwater Works to salvage valuable cargo and equipment from sunken ships established by GPU. They tried to find HMS Prince lost in a storm off… Read more about this item