Tanks and sleds

This book is the invention of Nikolai Makarovich Oleinikov (1898-1937), a hereditary Don Cossack, a participant in the revolutionary events and the civil war, a journalist, writer, mathematics, one of the initiators of Soviet children"s literature.
Now he is better known to adults - as an original poet, a participant in the Leningrad creative group of Oberiu (along with Harms, Zabolotsky, Vvedensky, etc) But schoolchildren of the 20-30s of the last century enthusiastically read his stories in the first Leningrad magazines for children "hedgehog," Chizh "," Koster ", looking forward to meeting with the brave rider Makar Swirepy, whose adventures were printed from room to room to room to room The form of the first comics in Russia.
And Oleinikov came up with chickens (a circle of smart guys), a knife (scientific organization of life), and a hedgehog-mathematician who knows secret methods of quick solutions to problems and examples.
Reading fascinating stories in the fighting days" section, do not forget that they are written by the contemporary of those events. That"s what they said, thought and acted then.
"Circle of smart guys" offers cunning riddles, puzzles, tasks with matches, and teach interesting tricks. And the hedgehog -mathematician reveals a secret - how to quickly solve complex arithmetic problems.
In the "Ezhov Appendix" you are waiting for stories in the pictures about the extraordinary adventures of the brave traveler Makar Fierce, who, with his faithful horse, was a carnation and friend Ivan Pondoryshkin in Africa and Europe, under water and in the air.
More about the author and children"s magazines of the 20-30s of the XX century-at the end of the book. A modern reader can now join this invaluable wealth