Chukokkala (Чукоккала) is a unique literary work produced by Russian writer

Korney Chukovsky Korney Ivanovich Chukovsky ( rus, Корне́й Ива́нович Чуко́вский, p=kɐrˈnʲej ɪˈvanəvʲɪtɕ tɕʊˈkofskʲɪj, a=Kornyey Ivanovich Chukovskiy.ru.vorb.oga; 31 March NS 1882 – 28 October 1969) was one of the most p ...

of genre difficult to identify. Traditionally described in Russian

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as "handwritten almanac", it is an eclectic mixture of

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, maintained since 1914 to late 1960s and first published in 1979 supplied with Chukovsky's comments.
Мемуар о «Чукоккале»
/ref> Over the time Chukokkala collected a large number of autographs, literary and drawing sketches, notes, puzzles, etc., of numerous famous people.
/ref> As Chukovsky explained himself, the name is the

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of his name and " Kuokkala," the name of the place where he lived when he started the autograph book. The preparation of the first, 1979 print edition, was started in 1964 when Chukovsky's granddaunhter decided to make a typewritten copy of ''Chukokkala'', which existed only as a single handwritten original. In 1965 the ''Iskusstvo'' publishing house deciede to publish the almanac. Chukovsky supplied it with a detailed commentary and archival materials. The preface to the first edition was written by Irakly Andronnikov. However the publication planned for 1965 did not happen for ideological reasons, and when the first edition had eventually been printed, it was heavily censored. The second, 1999 edition was still incomplete. The first complete edition was published in 2006.''Чуковский К. И.'' Чукоккала. Рукописный альманах Корнея Чуковского
/ Предисл. И. Андроникова; Коммент. К. Чуковского; Сост., подгот. текста, примеч. Е. Чуковской. — 2-е изд. испр. — М.: Русский путь, 2006. — 584 с. — 3000 экз. — . Asteroid number 3094 has a name 3094 Chukokkala

References

{{reflist Russian memoirs Works by Korney Chukovsky