A tekhnikum is a type of secondary vocational school in the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union, as well as in modern Russia, Ukraine and some other post-Soviet states. The tekhnikums were to prepare edu
The Great Soviet Encyclopedia 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
The first edition of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia, from 1927
Complete set of an English-language version of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia