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Translated from the Russian
by the late Joe Fineberg
Edited by David Skvirsky
Illustrated by Nikolai Zhukov
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First printing 194B * I^"/
Second printing 19$t * ^
Third revised edition 1957
Fourth printing 1967
Fifth printing 1973
Printed in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics