Book on Soviet chess sets ?

Hi All - Maybe someone from the Former SSR region could tell us. Is there any book about Soviet Era Chess sets or collecting them? I know if would be in Russian and I would still buy it. I think it would be loaded with GREAT pictures if there is such a treatise. Thanks -Ronbo 

 I would buy it.  I love the aesthetics of Soviet chess pieces...

I agree.

Not a book, but a nice short study nonetheless.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXTwxG4N62Y

And featured is this set, a classic:

Thanks, Burn Amos!

You can buy most of Linder's work traduced to English by now.

This book shows museum level of chess pieces, and doesn't consider ordinary pieces, in terms of mass production.

Hello:

If there is a good soul of this forum that translates this article, thank you, thank you all. It may be that he has some important information about the making of Soviet parts ... or it may not.
I know very little and what I have been writing has been taken from one or another magazine and especially from photographs of tournaments.
I know there was a very reasonable factory in Borodino, I know there is one in Kirov, the Orlov factory that makes some parts that unfortunately are ugly, and that do not make an inheritance in the aesthetic beauty of many Soviet sets.
Thanks

BurnAmos, do you know the year of newspaper?

Yes Arlindo's video was fuel for the fire in my collection . Definitely a CLASSIC !

Chess are made here.

A cosy rectangle of a board. Tiny black and white figures... These magnetic chess sets are manufactured by cultural goods factory named Perkhushkovskaya. The production is mastered only 2 years ago, but it has already got the "Quality sign". A special anniversary edition is prepared for the centenary of Lenin's birth.

A huge bright workshop. And kings and queens are everywhere. Thousands of monarchs are in the workshop. The newly made chess lords gleaming with fresh varnish are waiting in a line for packaging. They are waiting for long journeys. Orders come from everywhere: from cities of our country, from Hungary, Bulgaria...

Manufacturing of chess pieces is a laborious business. This operation is entrusted to the most experienced craftsmen, cause figures turning is only partially automated. However engraver Volodin designed a special machine and very soon anyone will be able to make chess pieces.

There is no factories manufacturing chess and checkers sets applicable for blind people. Perkhushkovskaya is the only exception. The range of products is growing continuously.

The issue of portable chess for tourists to begin soon. Training chess and boards made of precious woods will delight customers and decorate any apartments. Samples of abstract chess pieces are created at the suggestion of craftsman Sindalsky. This original "Gift" set to go on sale soon.

The Perkhushkovskaya factory production is in great demand. This is not surprising cause we love chess. Recently representatives of Star City asked the management of the Perkhushkovskaya to sell several magnetic chess sets. Perhaps the first spaceship tournament will be played on these chess boards.

So the article is from year 1969-early 1970....

Kakaru 1:

Thanks a lot.

Well...no great notice. Today this factory exists, "Moscow region, Odintsovo district, village of Kryukovo", but they manufacture nets for sports!! Or a new factory with the same name. In the article, It seems that they made chess sets of various styles including for the blind, but the photos are poor.

Linder's book has no value to the Russian Staunton pieces in their variants. Quite frankly only a Russian can do this book. Curious is the feeling that in Russia there has never been a real interest in the history of  competition chess pieces . Even in the recent Chess Museum in Moscow, there are few competition sets of  and even the Match table Karpov-Kasparov (1984) has an unbelievable "German Knight" or something like set because the original ( unique chess set in the world, and very “Jaques”!) was stolen just after the end of the competition. Already they  had one of those that was typical of Soviet competitions (GM pieces) but until this they took away.
Funny that my blog in articles related to Soviet chess pieces have several visits from Russia! I, who even am Portuguese. Enigma, and mysteries.

As you know, even among great collectors who all kno,  from Calvo to Lucia to Lothar Schmidt, the Soviet chess pieces have always been poor relatives to the fortunes of Jaques, BCC, and so on!
Perhaps the great impetus given to chess sets happened here in the Chess.Com Forum. Some original sets presented by some members of this Forum are historically irreproachable and of a capital importance to the History of Soviet chess pieces. So the NOJ-Chuck's reproduction of the Set of 61, is perhaps one of the most extraordinary deeds I know about this subject, because no one has ever seen or shown the original one. The reproduction is so beautiful, so thoroughly esthetic that it can only be the incarnation in this life of the real set! Thanks Chuck, thanks NOJ (I do not even like chess pieces vendors, believe me!)

BurnAmos:

Could you give the link of your "articles blog"?

http://xadrezmemoria.blogspot.pt/search/label/Pe%C3%A7as%20Xadrez%20Sovi%C3%A9ticas

http://xadrezmemoria.blogspot.pt/search/label/Pe%C3%A7as%20Xadrez%20Russas

Thank you!