The company
Yandex , replenishing the electronic library of reference books, included in
Yandex.Slovari all the materials of the universal encyclopedia "Krugosvet", which is comparable in size and significance to the "Great Soviet Encyclopedia". This edition contains information not only about facts that have already entered into history, but also about current events. Every year several hundred new entries are published in Krugosvet.
Yandeks.Slovari service
appeared in September 2006, and currently in its base - about 70 publications, including dictionaries of foreign languages. The number of articles exceeds 3 million. In 2007, the company plans to add 4 new editions every month. Recall that within two years from the moment the service was launched, about a million dollars will be spent on the electronic library creation program. As part of the program, Yandex acquires the rights to the most interesting dictionaries and encyclopedias, digitizes them in Informregister and adds them to its reference service.
According to Leonid Larshin, head of the Yandex.Digs service, the Krugosvet encyclopedia contains information not found in other service dictionaries. This is especially true of articles devoted to contemporary culture. “Therefore, users of Yandex. Dictionaries will learn a lot of new things,” he said. “Also, with the advent of another encyclopedia, many phenomena examined in other directories will appear more fully.”