The size is continental standard 6" x 4", unmailable without a cover, published by the Soviet Artist Publishing House, Moscow, circulation 28,000, very low by Soviet standards. The artwork is an offset print of a watercolor by O. Vereiskiy, illustrating a stanza from the famous poem by Alexander Tvardovsky featuring the fictional hero-soldier Vasiliy Terkin. The text is quoted on the verso, describing the glorious feeling of returning to his comrades at dawn after a successful recon mission, leading a captured German and carrying his German submachine gun.

In excellent, near mint condition.