The magazine of satire "Crocodile". Moscow: Pravda newspaper Publishing House, issues 1963 (No. 1-17). Semi-annual filing.

Krokodil is a Soviet and Russian satirical magazine. The symbol of the publication is a red crocodile with a pitchfork. Krokodil was founded in 1922, first as an appendix to the Rabochaya Gazeta, and was published once a week. Over time, it became the largest satirical publication in the USSR.

1963 was the year of the creation of the hydrogen bomb in the USSR, the space flight of the world's first female cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, the year of the first flight of the Tu-134 aircraft and many other domestic achievements.

In the best years, the circulation of the magazine "Crocodile" reached 6,500,000 copies, such famous writers in the USSR as Mikhail Zoshchenko, Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov, Valentin Kataev printed their works in it. The Crocodile was often called the satirical mouthpiece of the CPSU. The magazine ridiculed grafters, bureaucrats, parasites and drunkards.