The ''Byelorussian Soviet Encyclopedia'' () is the first universal encyclopaedia in the

Belarusian language Belarusian (, ) is an East Slavic languages, East Slavic language. It is one of the two Languages of Belarus, official languages in Belarus, the other being Russian language, Russian. It is also spoken in parts of Russia, Lithuania, Latvia, Polan ...

in 12 volumes printed in

Minsk Minsk (, ; , ) is the capital and largest city of Belarus, located on the Svislach (Berezina), Svislach and the now subterranean Nyamiha, Niamiha rivers. As the capital, Minsk has a special administrative status in Belarus and is the administra ...

from 1969 to 1975. The chief editorial board was established in 1967. More than five thousand authors wrote for the encyclopedia, including 125 academics and members of the Academy of Sciences of the BSSR or of the

Academy of Sciences of the USSR The Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union was the highest scientific institution of the Soviet Union from 1925 to 1991. It united the country's leading scientists and was subordinated directly to the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union (u ...

and its branches. More than 85% of authors lived and worked in the

Byelorussian SSR The Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic (BSSR, Byelorussian SSR or Byelorussia; ; ), also known as Soviet Belarus or simply Belarus, was a republic of the Soviet Union (USSR). It existed between 1920 and 1922 as an independent state, and ...

. The first eleven volumes contain encyclopedic articles; the twelfth was dedicated to the BSSR. The total number of articles in the encyclopedia numbered 34,409, of which about 40% devoted to Belarusian subjects. Around six thousand articles are about history, around ten thousand on the natural sciences, about 6.7 thousand on geography, around 6.8 thousand on culture, and around seven thousand biographies. The twelve volumes contain 112 color inserts (1554 illustrations and 172 maps), 215 black and white inserts (3002 illustrations), and around 8 thousand illustrations and 500 maps included in the text.

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1969 non-fiction books

Soviet Encyclopedia The ''Great Soviet Encyclopedia'' (GSE; , ''BSE'') is one of the largest Russian-language encyclopedias, published in the Soviet Union from 1926 to 1990. After 2002, the encyclopedia's data was partially included into the later ''Great Russian Enc ...

Soviet encyclopedias Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic 20th-century encyclopedias {{Soviet-stub

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