Great Russian Encyclopedia

Great Russian Encyclopedia

The Great Russian Encyclopedia ( _ru. Большая Российская энциклопедия (БРЭ); tr.: "Bol'shaya Rossiyskaya Enciklopediya") is a new universal Russian encyclopedia in 30 volumes, published since 2004 by Bol'shaya Rossiyskaya Enciklopediya publisher. It is released under the auspices of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) after 2002 Vladimir Putin's presidential decree № 1156.ru icon [http://www.greatbook.ru/catalog/bre/index.html Official website of GRE] ]

The chief editor of GRE is the RAS President Yury Osipov. Editorial board features 80 RAS members, including Nobel Prize laureates Zhores Alferov and Vitaly Ginzburg.

The first, introductory volume, released in 2004 is dedicated to Russia, it is planned to re-release each five years. There were ten volumes released between 2005 and 2008, covering the range from "A" to "Radiation" ("Излучение").

ee also

*Great Soviet Encyclopedia

References

External links

*ru icon [http://www.greatbook.ru/catalog/bre/index.html Official website]


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