Zoryan, Stepan. Stories for Children (Rasskazy dlya detei). Yerevan, 1946. In Russian.

Зорьян, Ст. Рассказы для детей / Ст. Зорьян ; пер. с армянского М. Качазнуни, А. Важдаева, Г. Хикояна, Я. Хачатрянц.
Ереван : Армгиз, 1946 (1-я типография Упр. Полиграф. и Изд. при СНК Арм. ССР). 44 с. : ил. ; 20 см.
Тираж 3 000 экз. 
Мягкая издательская обложка (художник не указан).
Состояние хорошее: у передней обложки утрата уголка, есть потёртости. Блок чистый, полный.
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Zoryan, Stepan. Stories for Children / by Stepan Zoryan ; translated from the Armenian by M. Kachaznuni, A. Vazhdaev, G. Khikoyan, and Ya. Khachatryants.
Yerevan: Armgiz, 1946 (First Printing House of the Administration of Printing and Publishing under the Council of People's Commissars of the Armenian SSR). 44 pp., illustrated ; 20 cm.
Print run of 3,000 copies. 
Soft publisher's wrapper (illustrator not credited in the book).
Condition good: the front wrapper has a corner loss, with general wear. Text block clean and complete.

This slim Yerevan-printed collection gathers eight short animal and childhood-memoir stories by Stepan Zoryan (pen name of Stepan Arakelyan, 1889/90-1967), one of the foremost Armenian Soviet prose writers of the twentieth century and, from 1965, an academician of the Armenian Academy of Sciences. Born into a peasant family in the village of Karaklis (present-day Vanadzor), Zoryan began publishing at seventeen and built his early reputation, prior to the 1917 revolution, on lyrical, unsentimental portraits of Armenian village and small-town life, gathered in his first collection "Gloomy People" (1918); he went on to a long career encompassing the autobiographical novel "The History of One Life," the historical novels "King Pap" and "The Armenian Fortress," and a celebrated Armenian translation of Tolstoy's "War and Peace." The present stories, narrated in the first person and drawn from the author's own rural Transcaucasian childhood, center on animals - a one-eared farm dog named Chalank, feuding and befriended dogs and cats, a grape-thieving hedgehog, a traveling dog named Jeko - rendered with the same warm, unsentimental observational eye found in Zoryan's adult fiction; several of the individual stories, including "Traveler Jeko," were later reissued as separate illustrated picture books for Armenian children. Notably, each story in this Russian-language collection was rendered by a different named translator, suggesting the pieces were assembled here from existing periodical or anthology translations rather than commissioned as a single unified project. Issued by Armgiz, the Armenian state publishing house, in a modest print run of 3,000 copies just after the end of the Second World War, the booklet is a representative example of the postwar Soviet program of bringing the literatures of the constituent republics to Russian-language child readers.