Soviet Encyclopedic Dictionary

''Soviet Encyclopedic Dictionary'' (russian: Советский Энциклопедический Словарь, СЭС) is an omnibus encyclopedic dictionary published by

Sovetskaya Entsiklopediya Publishing houses in the Soviet Union were a series of publishing enterprises which existed in the Soviet Union. Centralization On 8 August 1930, the Sovnarkom of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR) established the state p ...

(1st edition in 1979, 2nd in 1982, 3rd in 1984, 4th in 1986). The fourth edition (1,600 pages) contains about 80,000 entries, 550 black-and-white pictures and schemes and 350 maps. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union it has been issued as the new product, ' (1991, 1997, 2002). Soviet encyclopedias Russian-language encyclopedias 1979 non-fiction books 20th-century encyclopedias {{encyclopedia-stub