This was at a time when India-Russia friendly relations were at their peak so in order to carry out cultural exchange Indian government funded translating a ton of Russian books to local languages here. Sadly the initiative seems to be dead as I don’t find such books anymore.
My father had some excellently produced Russian fairy tales translated to English.
It was printed in Russia, by Raduga Publication.
Such books with thick pages, full color images, and custom fonts didn’t exist back then (1970s) in India. They were prized possessions.
Now there are volunteer efforts to digitize such books for nostalgia reasons [0][1].
And due to USSR-India cultural exchanges people of those generations were exposed to Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Pushkin, Gogol, Solzhenitsyn, and many more. Many sexagenarians still seem to quote from them!
[0]: https://mirtitles.org/tag/bengali/
[1]: https://sovietbooksinbengali.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_1.html
My father said he used to buy lot of soviet translations because they were cheap but the content was of high quality. Even after 30 years, when I picked them up, they were clearly distinct, including the Art, print quality and binding.