The alphabet book (Букварь)

[mosfet07]

Here is the Soviet alphabet book, used to teach russian children to read and write. Almost anyone who was born in early 80s can remember this book.
http://savok.name/305-bukvar.html

Title page

This kind of books also called Азбука from the old names of the first two letters of the russian alphabet - Аз (А) and Буки (Б).

Here is the more modern version:
https://vk.com/album-20199180_156421338

This site has a collection of such books:
http://fremus.narod.ru/index-book.html

[AngieMc47]

"Лес. Около леса река. В лесу сосны и ели. Сто лет росли они. Какие высокие сосны и ели. Красивы русские леса."

[VioletteNoire]

Lol, fourth picture in the first link it says:

"[...] You'll learn how to read and write, at first, you'll write the dearest and closest words to us all: mom, Motherland, Lenin."

[kosmozhuk]

When I was a kid in Soviet school a teacher reprimanded one boy for writing Mom with the capital M and lenin with the small one. So it was not bloody lol!

On the other hand, the quality of teaching Russian was waaaaay higher. I weep every time I'm taking a look into my son's textbooks.

[NasuSamaruk0]

Good suggestion! I like that!