• English excerpt of The Hobbit published in the USSR.

• Spine says "English Fairy Tale", cover says "ONCE UPON A TIME..."

• Moscow: Progress Publishers

• 1975

• 85,000 copies

• Illustrated by F.Lemkul

Note that Tolkien is misspelled on the lower dustjacket cover ("John Tolkein"). Images courtesy Marek Śliwiński (elfy)'s Hobbit collection at Babel Hobbits