BALABANOV, Ye

A very good, clean, tight copy. 293pp.. Cloth-backed colour illustrated boards, illustrated in b/w throughout, entire text in Russian. Illustrator N Stolaninova. A very good, clean, tight copy. Interesting children's science primer published a year before the Sputnik 1 was launched. The cover shows an idea that was current in science fiction at the time of an atomic power station in space providing light to a large area of the Earth below.