It means "made in USSR", it wasn't used in USSR, therefore OP's comment "I don't live near Russia" is like saying "I have a thing made in China but I don't live in China, how did that happen".
Malysh (Малыш) Publishers was a prominent Soviet children's book house, founded in 1964, known for publishing high-quality books for young kids (under nine) featuring top Russian authors and illustrators, including folk tales, educational books (like astronomy/clocks), and classic stories, often distributed internationally and still found today in vintage markets like Etsy.
If you google it you'll get a bunch of articles about it and items for sale and a lot of those items aren't in Russian.
Yeah because as we saw in the Hollywood movies, everybody from Jesus to Genghis Khan to Stalin and Delta Quadrant speak English.
This book is literally from the ussr. It says right there "printed in ussr". The language its in isn't relevant to where it was printed.
It means "made in USSR", it wasn't used in USSR, therefore OP's comment "I don't live near Russia" is like saying "I have a thing made in China but I don't live in China, how did that happen".
Got to love the international commerce...
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I googled that Malyish publisher
If you google it you'll get a bunch of articles about it and items for sale and a lot of those items aren't in Russian.