Soviet Space Dogs

Text (in English) by Olesya TurkinaEdited by Damon Murray and Stephen Sorrell The Museum of Jurassic Technology is delighted to offer this new and exceedingly handsome volume on the heroic and beloved dogs of the Soviet space program. Written and extensively researched by MJT colleague, collaborator and dear friend Dr. Olesya Turkina, Senior Research Fellow at the State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, and faculty member at St. Petersburg State University, this book is, to our knowledge, the most comprehensive title yet published in the United States on the subject -- and certainly the most beautiful. Hardbound with gold foil embellishments on the cover, nearly every page of this lavishly illustrated book includes full-color images of the rich and varied ephemera (from cigarette packets to sweet wrappers and children's toys) produced in Russia and abroad to commemorate the noble dogs. These homeless dogs, plucked from the streets of Moscow, were selected because they fitted the space pr