Murzilka

Murzilka

First Issue of Murzilka
Editor-in-Chief	Tatyana Androsenko
Former editors	Anatoly Mityaev
Frequency	Monthly
Circulation	75,000
First issue	16 May 1924
Country	Soviet Union Russia
Based in	Moscow
Language	Russian
Website	Murzilka
ISSN	0132-1943

Murzilka (Russian: Мурзилка) is a popular Soviet/Russian illustrated magazine for 6–12 years olds. It has been published since May 1924.

At the end of the 19th century a Canadian illustrator and writer Palmer Cox created a cycle of poems about little people brownie. Later a Russian author Anna Hvolson started writing stories based on his drawings about little forest men. She called the main character who wore a white tie, had a walking stick and a monocle "Murzilka".

The first issue of the magazine came out on 16 May 1924 in the Soviet Union. It is published on a monthly basis. Here Murzilka was a small white dog and appeared with his owner-boy Petya. From 1927 to 1928 in the magazine issued Murzilka Newspaper.

In 1937 an illustrator Aminadav Kanevsky created the image of Murzilka – yellow furry character in a red beret with a scarf and camera over his shoulder.

Murzilka started creative way of such writers as Samuil Marshak, Sergey Mikhalkov, Elena Blaginina, Boris Zahoder, Agniya Barto, Nikolay Nosov, Marina Uspenskaya. The magazine was listed by the Guinness World Records as the longest running children's magazine in the world.