New Year’s In Sokolniki Lenin Among Children by A. Kononov

Posted on August 14, 2025 by The Mitr

A little book describing Lenin and children in a Christmas setting.

Drawings by N. Zhukov
Translated from the Russian by Fainna Glagoleva

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Ships Go Sailing On The Seas by Svyatoslav Sakharnov

Posted on August 13, 2025 by The Mitr

A little book describing various types of ships and boats. Some fantastic illustrations showing the cross sectional structures of ships.

Illustrations by Eric Benjaminson and Boris Kyshtymov
Retold in English by Fainna Glagoleva

Note: The book was too large to fit into regular A4 sized scanner. So I had to do two scans of each page and then combine them. Mostly you will not notice this combining of pages, but at some places you might notice slight misalignment if you look closely enough.

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Whose Is The Sun? by Yuri Averenkov

Posted on August 12, 2025 by The Mitr

A picture story book for children about a chick and a pup.

Translated from the Russian

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A Bookful Of Beasts by V. Mayakovsky

Posted on August 11, 2025 by The Mitr

A small picture book describing various animals like the bison, lion, lama , monkeys, crocodiles and elephants ….

Illustrated by N. Charushin
Translated from the Russian by Avril Pyman

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The Green Island by V. Datskevich

Posted on August 10, 2025 by The Mitr

A little book describing a green area, the Botanical Gardens, in the middle of Moscow visited by six year old boy Vadik and his father. Various plants, trees, flowers are described with birds and other animals.

Colour photographs by V. Datskevich
Translated from the Russian by Jan Butler

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Alice by Yulia Drunina

Posted on August 9, 2025 by The Mitr

A wonderful book about a little fox named Alice who was a pet for the author. The author get Alice from the market thinking she is a dog, but only after a while she realises that she has indeed got a fox. The author reminiscences life with Alice in her apartment and her country home. Adventures with Alice will be always in memory of the author and the reader.

Drawings by Venlamin Kostitsky
Translated by Raissa Bobrova

All credits to Guptaji.

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This is a cleaned, optimised version of an earlier scan.

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పుస్తకం ನಿಂಡ್ జంతువులే! – వి. మయకోవ్స్కీ (A Bookful Of Beasts! In Telugu by V. Mayakovsky)

Posted on August 8, 2025 by The Mitr

A little picture book describing various animals,
వివిధ జంతువులను వివరించే చిన్న చిత్ర పుస్తకం,

చిత్రాలు: యన్. చరూషిన్ అనువాదం: పి.పి.సి. జోషి

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ఆకుపచ్చ ద్వీపం- వి.దచ్కేవిచ్ (The Green Island in Telugu V. Datskevich)

Posted on August 7, 2025 by The Mitr

A little book describing a green area, the Botanical Gardens, in the middle of Moscow visited by six year old boy Vadik and his father.

మాస్కో మధ్యలో ఉన్న ఒక పచ్చని ప్రాంతాన్ని వివరించే ఒక చిన్న పుస్తకం, బొటానికల్ గార్డెన్స్, ఆరు సంవత్సరాల బాలుడు వాడిక్ మరియు అతని తండ్రి సందర్శించారు.

రంగుల ఫోటోలు: వి. దచ్కేవిచ్
చిత్రాలు: వి.లెవిన్ సోన్
అనువాదం: ఆర్వియార్

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The Minor Planets by F. Yu. Zigel’

Posted on August 6, 2025 by The Mitr

Where did that group of minor planets come from, revolving around the Sun between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter? Are the minor planets related to the meteorites that strike the Earth? What role could the minor planets play in the plans for the conquest of space? These are a few of the questions discussed in this book by F. Yu. Zigel.

The .reader will also learn about the history of the study of asteroids, modern methods of investigating them, and about some of the interesting minor planets—Icarus, Hermes, Eros and others.

Translation of “Malyye Planety.”
“Nauka” Press, Moscow, 1969

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ASTEROIDS – THEIR SIGNIFICANCE TODAY 1
SOME HISTORY 4
METHODS OF STUDYING THE MINOR PLANETS 15
THE MOTION AND ORBITS OF THE ASTEROIDS 23
IMPORTANT ASTEROIDS 29
THE PHYSICAL NATURE OF THE MINOR PLANETS 38
SMALL BODIES IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM 49
ASTEROIDS IN THE LABORATORY 64
THE ENIGMA OF TEKTITES 77
WAS THERE EVER A PLANET PHAETON? 83
ASTEROIDS AND ASTRONAUTICS 99
REFERENCES 102

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Prison Diaries And Letters by Felix Dzerzhinsky

Posted on August 5, 2025 by The Mitr

Dzerzhinsky’s prison diary and the letters to his rela­ tives published in this volume show how the will of the revolutionary was steeled by severe trials, how his cour­ age grew in the struggle to emancipate the people from exploitation and slavery.
Dzerzhinsky’s diary and letters are not a chronicle of his life. On the other hand, their every line is evi­dence of the great mind and ideological probity of their writer, who had a deep love for the working man and a boundless hatred for the oppressors.

The Russian text of this book was compiled and prepared for the press by Dzerzhinsky’s widow

Translated from the Russian by John Gibbons

Credits to the original uploaders, this is a cleaned, optimised scan.

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CONTENTS
FOREWORD 5
AUTOBIOGRAPHY 13
PAGES FROM A PRISON DIARY 1908-09 19
LETTERS TO RELATIVES 1898-1902 129
ESCAPE FROM EXILE 163
LETTERS TO RELATIVES 1902-26 175

 

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