Motherlode of Soviet futuristic magazine covers

Here's a massive boatload of covers from vintage Soviet tech magazines -- most of these came from valiant Twitterers (@billnagel, @kwispel, @vr_quarksoup, @houbi) who responded to my call for the originating URL for an unattributed gallery of covers I found on another site, filling my cup to overflowing with a motherload of sovfuturkitsch that I'll be wallowing in for days. I want to wallpaper my office with these.

Update: Via Twitter, @vonross adds, "This was a youth-oriented futurist/kosmist zine started in the 20's, purged & retasked by Stalin during WWII, it went to roots of modernism."

2.5 GB torrent of PDFs of full issues of "Техники молодежи" (!!!!1111!ONE!)

Обложки "Техники молодежи" (30е - 50е, СССР)

'Техника - молодежи'

Обложки журнала Техника молодежи (29 фото)

(Thanks, Mike K!)

[#1 posted by Anonymous , March 13, 2009 3:43 AM]

You might be interested in an SF bi-monthly (IIRC) from that period - "Iskatel'" ("Seeker"). I still have lots of them from the mid-80s lying around in my parents' home in Bulgaria.

[#2 posted by Brettspiel , March 13, 2009 6:49 AM]

Ok, how do I get the torrent to work? Is there a tracking file?

[#3 posted by Anonymous , March 13, 2009 9:59 AM]

In Soviet Russia, torrents track you!

[#4 posted by redSky , March 13, 2009 8:59 PM]

Anyone know the copyright status on these images? I don't think I've ever seen an exploration of fair use for Soviet era IP.

[#5 posted by Anonymous , March 14, 2009 5:36 AM]

I believe all art created in Soviet Union fell under "public domain", as per communist doctrine.

[#6 posted by eti , March 14, 2009 5:54 PM]

This is the best thing ever.

Thanks, Cory. And god bless you, Soviets. Bless your godless communist souls.