[Little Uniany: A Folk Tale of the Evenki People]. Malenkii Uniany: Evenkiiskaia narodnaia skazka. 

Retold by M. Bulatov. 
Illustrations by A. Rybachuk. 

Moskva, Izdatel’stvo “Detskii mir”, 1962. 
8vo, 19, [1] pp., ill. 

In original pictorial wrappers. 
Near very good condition, lightly rubbed. 

Rare first and only standalone edition. The only edition of these illustrations. Printed in Minsk. 

This is a tale from the Evenki people, a Tungusic ethnic group from Eastern Siberia, about a nomadic camp attacked by a flying, man-eating shaman named Korendo. He devours all the inhabitants except for one old woman and a baby boy, whom she names Uniany and raises. As he grows up, Uniany resolves to avenge his people. He forges a pair of giant wings and sets off in search of the shaman, visiting the tents of the shaman’s many wives. Eventually, he finds Korendo and, in an airborne battle, breaks the shaman’s wings. Korendo falls and dies, and from his burst belly emerge the people he had swallowed, who return to their homes.
The text was prepared by the noted folklorist and writer Mikhail Bulatov (1913–1963) and was first published in the magazine 'Sibirskie Ogni' in 1937.
The illustrations were created by Ada Rybachuk (1931–2010), a Ukrainian painter, muralist, sculptor, and architect. She studied at the Kyiv State Art Institute under Oleksii Shovkunenko. After her first trip to the Arctic North in 1954, Rybachuk, along with her artistic partner and husband Volodymyr Melnychenko, spent a total of about seven years living and working there. During this time, they produced numerous graphic series, linocuts, and children’s book illustrations.

OCLC locates three copies of this edition, at Stanford University, the Cleveland Public Library, and the University of Washington Libraries.