Merry Pictures (Russian: Весёлые картинки, romanized: Vesyolye Kartinki) is a popular Soviet/Russian illustrated humorous magazine for young children.
[4][5] During the Soviet era, several well-known writers (including K. I. Chukovsky, A. L. Barto, S. Ya.
Marshak) and famous artists (including A. Brey, A. Kanevsky, A. P. Sazonov and Yu.
[2] In publishes verses, short stories and fairy tales, as well as board games, cartoons, rebuses, puzzles, etc.
[2] It has a group of recurring fantasy characters, the "Merry Little Folks [ru] Club": Karandash ("Pencil", and artist), Samodelkin ("Do-It-Yourself"), Buratino, Cipollino, Neznayka, Thumbelina, Petrushka, and Gurvinek (Czhech puppet Hurvínek).