Mikhalkov, Sergey (trans.). Three Little Pigs (Tri porosenka). Text and illustrations by Walt Disney Studio, 1937. In Russian.

Михалков, Сергей (перевод и обработка). Три поросенка : Текст и рисунки студии Вальтера Диснея / перевод и обработка Сергея Михалкова. 3-е издание.
Москва - Ленинград : Издательство детской литературы ЦК ВЛКСМ, 1937. 45, [3] с. : ил.
Твердый картонажный переплет. Энциклопедический формат (25,5 х 19,5 см). Тираж 100 000 экз.
На форзацах следы детского раскрашивания (белые участки закрашены розовым карандашом).
Переплет - хорошее: заметные потертости краев, углов и корешка. Блок - хорошее: крепкий, страницы слегка пожелтели от времени; все контурные иллюстрации в тексте чистые и не раскрашены.
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Mikhalkov, Sergey (translation and adaptation). Three Little Pigs : Text and illustrations by Walt Disney Studio / translated and adapted by Sergey Mikhalkov. 3rd edition.
Moscow - Leningrad : Detizdat TsK VLKSM, 1937. 45, [3] pp. : ill.
Hardcover (paper-covered boards). Encyclopedic format (25.5 x 19.5 cm). Print run of 100,000 copies.
Endpapers bear previous owner's (child's) coloring in pink pencil.
Binding good: noticeable rubbing to edges, corners, and spine. Text block good: firm, pages lightly age-toned; all internal black-and-white illustrations remain entirely clean and uncolored.

A fascinating and historically significant Soviet edition of Walt Disney's "Three Little Pigs" (Silly Symphonies, 1933), adapted for Russian children by the prominent Soviet writer and poet Sergey Mikhalkov. In the 1930s, prior to the ideological freezes of the Cold War, early Disney animations were highly praised in the Soviet Union for their technical brilliance and were even screened at the 1935 Moscow Film Festival. The Soviet publishing apparatus, specifically Detizdat, produced these licensed or officially sanctioned adaptations. Mikhalkov brilliantly localized the story, famously giving the pigs the names Nif-Nif, Nuf-Nuf, and Naf-Naf, which became permanently embedded in Russian cultural memory. This 1937 third edition features the iconic Disney Studio line-art illustrations throughout the text, accompanied by full-color illustrated endpapers. Finding pre-WWII Soviet children's books in good condition is exceedingly difficult due to their intended audience and the destructive war years that followed. While the endpapers show some child's coloring in pink pencil, importantly, the internal black-and-white illustrations remain completely uncolored and pristine, making this a highly collectible artifact of 1930s Soviet-American cultural exchange and a prized piece of vintage Disneyana.