MISHA - The Russian Magazine from childhood

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I remember having subscribed to a kids magazine called “Misha”. This was published from the erstwhile Soviet Union. I have lots of fond memories of the magazine. They had a bear called Misha as the logo. I believe they had shut down oper…

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I remember having subscribed to a kids magazine called "Misha". This was published from the erstwhile Soviet Union.

I have lots of fond memories of the magazine. They had a bear called Misha as the logo.

I believe they had shut down operations, and might have recently restarted.

Anyone remembers Misha? Have a scan or an old copy?

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I also loved to read misha .they were very good magazines . But can't find them now . I have even lost my old copies in shifting . But it was good to find a thread on this topic also .

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Remember them!! LOVED them!! they were really good printed on good quality paper and all.CARTOONS!!!

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catanalyst Says
.... But can't find them now . I have even lost my old copies in shifting ....
Aww. I was really hoping to find a copy. A scan, anything.
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Er,you do realise that MISHA stopped printing a really long time ago.I am not sure scanners were available back then.And in the ensuing period a lot of them would have given it away. I guess u'll have better luck in hunting for a copy.

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If I remember correctly the last few pages had illustrations by children, pictures of new stamps, addresses of kids who wanted pen-pals. There was also a simple crossword,unfortunately in Russian, beautiful illustrations for the stories.

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Omg, I had absolutely forgotten about this magazine until I saw this thread. And as soon as I saw the topic long lost memories came flooding back. I loved this magazine! There was this library near my house, in vizag, which had many copies of this magazine and I used to go and sit therefor hours on end going through them...ah, the joys of nostalgia...

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Me too a hardcore MISHA fan... Google found the following links to me:
Some illustrations for MISHA: http://khatchatrian.ru/en/childraw.html
One specific illustration: http://khatchatrian.ru/en/misha.html
As the site claims, an online shopping option for MISHA: http://shop.russia-on-line.com/periodicals/item.php?id=72847 FYI: Price $59.00 !!!!
This guy Samanth seems to have some copies of MISHA, Check out his Blog: http://samanth.blogspot.com/2005/06/meme-hunts-me-down.html
One MISHA magazine cover: http://www.cosplaylab.com/cosplayers/costumes/details.asp?costumeid=62379
One more cover: http://www.cosplaylab.com/cosplayers/costumes/details.asp?costumeid=62380
Almost all these links could only be used to revive the memory of MISHA, nothing more than that. But try contacting that Samanth guy, who seems to have some copies of our magazine. Lets see ... !!
Hail Misha !!
Rick.
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ok..........so a thread devoted to "Misha"......hahahhahahhaha....this feels so damn funny.....hehehehhehehehe

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misha Says
ok..........so a thread devoted to "Misha"......hahahhahahhaha....this feels so damn funny.....hehehehhehehehe

And that's how this place has become PaGaLLand, okey 😛 😛

BTW, this thread is dedicated to 'MISHA' and NOT to 'misha' 😁

Rick.
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misha Says
ok..........so a thread devoted to "Misha"......

Well Misha was loved by a lot of Indians.. I'm sure.
It might interest you that Misha was a pet name for "Mikhail" .. and it was the mascot of the magazine.. a bear 😃
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well Misha was also the name of the mascot of 1980 olympics....and means something very different from anyone in this pgland...... ...i wud say all the avid "misha readers".....(hahahahhahhahahhahhahhahahha)....should google and find out......hahahahhahhaha.......







Misha
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misha Says
well Misha was also the name of the mascot of 1980 olympics....and means something very different from anyone in this pgland......


Well it's because Misha is to Bear in Russian what Sheru is to Lion/Tiger in India.

Also "Bear" represents Russia so it's an obvious choice for both animal and name of the mascot 😃
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Me too a hardcore MISHA fan... Google found the following links to me:
Some illustrations for MISHA: http://khatchatrian.ru/en/childraw.html
One specific illustration: http://khatchatrian.ru/en/misha.html
As the site claims, an online shopping option for MISHA: http://shop.russia-on-line.com/periodicals/item.php?id=72847 FYI: Price $59.00 !!!!
This guy Samanth seems to have some copies of MISHA, Check out his Blog: http://samanth.blogspot.com/2005/06/meme-hunts-me-down.html
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Hail Misha !!
Rick.


Great work, Rick!

The Cosplay links are something different .. not the Misha we have in mind..

But you gave me a great lead..
http://www.google.com/search?q=ISSN+0208-1563

Which in turn led to..

http://www.eastview.com/xq/ASP/sku=P6440/Moskva/Russian/qx/russian/periodicals/product.asp
http://misha.voskres.info/


For Google, another thing..
It is also spelt "Misja" and "".


Also East View appears to sell old copies in the US for $21 + $6 postage .. slightly expensive

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ya thats for the animal i represent....hehehe....

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:Fade-col: It used to really cool glossy magazine. Especially I can never forget its typical smell. It used to smell totally different. I liked all the activities (like glueing some stuff etc.) they used to give. And especially the games in the last page...

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Absolutely loved those mags. I have 3-4 issues in my native place.I remmber there used to be a comic about a wolf and a rabbit.

They dont make them like those anymore......

Many amazing comics and mags of old have dissapeared......

Target (one of the best)
Chandammama
Indrajal comics.......

In those days there was no cable and books were all we could turn to....but now its a sad state of affairs.........:(
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hey guyz!!!

gr8 work guyz.......i had almost forgotten abt my first brush with reading( yeah i started out with MISHA)....................neways it was gr8 to relive those moments.................
...........this pagal community is really rocking man........its so gud to see these threads dedicated to MISHA, calvin................keep it up guyz...
cheerz

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Absolutely loved those mags. I have 3-4 issues in my native place.I remmber there used to be a comic about a wolf and a rabbit.

*Wow* you're the first person over the course of this thread as well as among the hundreds I've asked, to actually own a copy! Would it be possible for you to scan it someday and post it? You would make hundreds of hearts glad!

I know it's asking for too much, but you'd be a hero


They dont make them like those anymore......

Absolutely true, man.. Some things are just perfect.. even now in my mind I can think of those Misha issues.. I remember Winnie the Pooh in it, the Wolf, the School Kid, the Space series.. The articles.. I first learnt what a stencil was when they wrote "Galileo created a perfect circle without a compass.. " I remember another article about kids aeromodelling in a park in Moscow.. Totally fascinated me then!

Such tiny things.. childhood memories. I wonder how I'll react to seeing an actual copy again; especially one I've read before..