Descriptive Information

Title

Bukvarʹ / A.R. Bespalenko.

Call Number

NR Cyrillic 44340

Identifier

ark:/88435/dcng451x96d

Publisher

Leningrad : UchPEDGIZ, 1940.

Language

Russian

Date Created

1940

Extent

101, [1] p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Rights Statement

Copyright Not Evaluated

Notes

Translated title: A Primer.

'Bukvarʹ dli︠a︡ Ėvenskoĭ (Lamutskoĭ) nachalʹnoĭ shkoly' on colophon. Primer for schools in Siberia. Text in Even printed in Cyrillic (1937, without additional characters).

Portraits of Lenin, Stalin, Kalinin and Molotov, also Kliment Efremovich Voroshilov.

Illustration on p. 6 of classroom scene with boy doing math problem with counting board, that on p. 88 of Siberian one-room school, with instructress in fetching flounced skirt and fur-topped boots, elk horns mounted over door. Illustrations depict landscape and traditional life, yurts along the shore in one scene, log cabin school, reindeer, elk, traditional dress, little boy reading to greatly impressed father, gradually introducing the advantages of communist government and technological advance: community meeting on p. 37, boy being treated by eye doctor, family with record player on p. 57, tractor and tram on p. 61.

Sweet endpapers of Siberian children sitting before a fan and playing with a model airplane, one child in fur parka, others with pioneer scarves.

Binding Note

col. ill. bds, cloth. orange & brown ill. e.p.

Discovery Information

Subject

Even language

Children's literature—Soviet Union

Russian language—Readers

Russian language—Textbooks for foreign speakers

Readers (Publications)

Physical Characteristics

File Count

110

Institutional Information

Collection

Princeton Slavic Collections

IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/dc923fb7-3411-4ecc-af70-440b53f675bb/manifest

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