Merry Pictures

Merry Pictures (Весёлые картинки) is a Russian children's illustrated humorous magazine established in the Soviet Union in 1956. Its target audience is children of ages 4-11. It had the largest circulation among the children's publications in the Soviet Union, reaching 9.5 million copies monthly in early 1980s.

In publishes verses, short stories and fairy tales, as well as board games, cartoons, rebuses, puzzles, etc.

It has a group of recurring fantasy characters, the "Merry Little Folks Club": Karandash ("Pencil", and artist), Samodelkin ("Do-It-Yourself"), Buratino, Cipollino, Neznayka, Thumbelina, Petrushka, and Gurvinek (Czhech puppet Hurvínek).