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Limited to 600 copies.The Solovetsky Islands (firstly SLON) magazine was the official edition of the management of the Solovetsky Special Purpose Camps. It was published in 1924-1926 and 1929-1930. The first issue was released in 17 copies only and was full of political articles (later poems, essays, and tales appeared). Prisoners were most of the authors. The magazine was managed by the OGPU leaders and demonstrated re-educational work under the enemies of the nation. It was declared that the magazine was distributed not throughout the Soviet Union only but even abroad. The typography of the issue is made in an avant-garde style that was unusual for such publications.The issue includes translation from Ovid's The Metamorphoses and the extract from Shelley's Ode to the West Wind (in English). Some authors of this edition were executed in 1938. We couldn't trace any copy of this issue in the USA or European libraries via OCLC.

Celebration was held on 1 st and 2 nd February 1925. Four performances were shown on the second day. It was excerpts from the opera Ruslan and Lyudmila by Mikhail Glinka and Sadko by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, ballet La Sylphide by Jean-Madeleine Shneytshoeffer and Petrushka by Igor Stravinsky