Comment by mynegation

I grew up reading this magazine, together with Yunnyi Tekhnik (Young Technologist), Nauka I Zhizn (Science and Life) and, of course, Kvant (Quantum). With all its failings USSR took science and technology very seriously and opened the funnel really wide. That is probably why USSR had nuclear weapons and space technology comparable to United States with half the population and third the money (for the pedants - I made the second ratio up, but you get the idea)