Little Odessa, A Brighton Beach Anthology (2025)
Printed and bound by Conveyor Studio in NJ. 
80lb Silk Coated paper and matte laminated hardcover, 10 editions.
Library of Congress Control Number: 2025902634

Little Odessa, A Brighton Beach Anthology, is a 100-page hardcover perfect-bound book that reflects on the historic South Brooklyn neighborhood—Brighton Beach—and its successive waves of post-Soviet migration from the 1970s onwards. This visual anthology curates printed ephemera, architectural landmarks, archived restaurant menus, artworks, and cultural media that capture the neighborhood's post-Soviet emigre. And through four short essays, Petukhova meditates on language and cultural connectedness within post-Soviet emigre communities and the kinds of material discrepancies that surface across preservation efforts.

Featured works and material contributions include, artists Alexey Yurenev, Anatoliy Fatakhov, and Ed Gray; author Daniel Blokh; and filmmakers Carol Stein, Levan Koguashvili, and the late Aleksei Balabanov.

This printed edition is accessible to the public at:

• The Center for Brooklyn History
• Thomas J. Watson Library at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
• The New York Historical 
• Carnegie Mellon University: Hunt Library (Fine and Rare Book Room, Artist Book Collection)
• Harvard University: Houghton Library 
• The Library of Congress

Made with the generous support of the Scholastic Art & Writing Alliance’s 2024 Alumni Micro-grant.

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