Soviet Orohek Magazines?

So I've got a bit of an obsession with hoarding old junk. Books being the latest.

Cut to the chase. I now have a huge box of old magazines sitting here. "Orohek", to be as close as I can write without using cyrillic characters. From what I've read it's a Russian magazine halfway between Time and TV Week, still in publication. But anyhow, thing is, these are all Soviet ones, more than 200 in all, only dating between 1964 and 1968, the height of the Cold War in other words. I think I might just have a complete collection between those years sitting here.

They're bloody odd. They're mainly full of art and film screens, a few ads and architectural things and crazy technology, but every copy has at least two pages dedicated to Lenin, and heaps of USSR propiganda, even just funny crap like cartoons of American soldiers throwing money and camel cigarettes around.

Pretty good stuff, but anyway. A friend at Uni got all weird and shakey when I showed them to him, like he was affraid to mark them or something. Apparantly I should either find out how much they cost, or give them to a university or something. He keeps throwing around the phrase "primary source material".

I'm just a bit confused with what to to with these. Any more information on these things would be great.

well, seeing as this guy right here is apparently auctioning off 1951 to 1958 for 5000 euro with a buynow price of 70000 euro, you should probably keep on o them and make sure not to ruin them.

http://www.antikwariat.ru/auctions168341

but you should go ask on 2chan.ru, i'm sure they'd be better at helping you out than us.

Wow... damn. Thanks for that. I think I'll be hanging on to them for a while.

yeah, it's worth to notice that there aren't any bids though. But still, there are bound to be some niche of collectors for this sort of stuff, and if not, most universities will probably be more or less interested in them as these guys tend to store mountains of old magazines in basements etc. and as your friend said, this would be great primary source material for someone studying  stuff about russia in the cold war.