ВАЛДАЫ

An apazine published by Bruce Pelz for the Valley Science Fiction Association’s ValAPA, around the same time he launched the longer-lived HET BPEMЯ for weekly APA-L, also named in (not quite correct) Russian.

As Pelz wrote in issue 3:

It’s VALDAY, not VALDAI — and for the benefit of the rest of the crew, it is the name of a city in Russia, besides being appropriate for a ValAPAzine. I wonder if I should translate "Zukunftkitsch," Dian’s art page title?

Except… well… some people just work too hard at their titles. The small town of wikipedia:Valday, Novgorod Oblast, until it made headlines by the country's dictator selecting it for his dacha, had been known merely for giving its name to the wikipedia:Valdai Hills (note the inconsistency in transcription!), the only significant interruption of the flatland between Moscow and St. Petersburg. Clearly, Pelz went through a encyclopedia looking for whatever would be closest to "ValAPA", and finding a Russian place, decided to transcribe it to Cyrillic. (Who knows, he may have been studying at least elementar librarian Russian then?) However, he used the letter for Y the vowel, not the consonant – the actual Russian spelling is Валдай (capitalised ВАЛДАЙ), sometimes also transliterated Valdaj; a Russian speaker would read his version close to "Vull-duh-üh".

(And for completeness, the art page title means "future kitsch"… except that German, when making the compound word, would use a connective/genitive -s-, Zukunftskitsch.)

Issue	Date	Pages	Notes
3	July 15, 1966	2
4	July 29, 1966	2
5	August 12, 1966	2
6	August 26, 1966	2

• Valday online at fanac.org

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Publication

1966

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