Collective Volume for Children “Urals – the Golden Land” (1944)

Abstract

The article presents a collection of stories written by Young Pioneers and school children for the Sverdlovsk, Molotov, and Chelyabinsk regions entitled «Urals – the Golden Land». The volume was initiated and compiled by the journalist and writer Anatoly Klimov, who previously created a similar volume «We are from Igarka» (1938). The focus is on the story of the book’s creation and analysis of the mechanics of children’s creative output presentation in the Soviet Union.   Keywords: children’s literature of the USSR, 1930’s children’s creative output, book by Soviet schoolchildren and Young Pioneers, Urals – the Golden Land, Anatoly Klimov