Presidential Library told about most popular children's magazine Murzilka

On January 23rd, 2025 a meeting with Irina Alekseevna Antonova, the editor-in-chief of the Murzilka magazine and children's author was held as a part of the Knowledge of Russia video lecture series.

The event was conducted via teleconference between Moscow, St. Petersburg and Tyumen with Irina Antonova speaking from the Presidential Library's reserve center in Moscow. During her talk, she discussed how Murzilka has become a phenomenon in children's periodicals.

Murzilka is the only children's magazine worldwide to be listed in the Guinness World Records for being the longest-running children's publication. It was first published on May 16th, 1924, and is aimed at readers of primary school age. Last year, it celebrated its centennial in a grand manner. Throughout its 100-year history, the beloved magazine has never missed an issue.

It has always been based on children's fiction: fairy tales, fairy tales, short stories, plays, poems. Over the years, Agnia Barto, Korney Chukovsky, Samuel Marshak, Mikhail Prishvin, Konstantin Paustovsky, Valentin Berestov, Sergei Mikhalkov, Irina Tokmakova, Eduard Uspensky and other famous writers have been published in the magazine.

On the Presidential Library's portal, electronic copies of issues of the Murzilka magazine for 1930-1932, 1934-1937, 1939, 1940, and 1942 are available.

The event was attended by representatives from the National Center for Historical Memory in Moscow; students from Krasnoselsky District School No. 383, the College of Shipbuilding and Applied Technologies in St. Petersburg; Golyshmanovskaya Schools No. 1 and No. 2 via the Golyshmanovskaya Centralized Library System, as well as students from the Baikal School in Tyumen region.

The event was available for everyone. The meeting was broadcasted on the Presidential Library’s portal in Live Broadcasts section, as well as on the Rutube-channel of the Library, on the social networks VKontakte and Odnoklassniki.

The recorrding of the meeting is is available on the Rutube-channel of the Library, on the social networks VKontakte and Odnoklassniki.