Conditions and background for the creation of encyclopedias of small territories in the former Soviet Union countries

Abstract

The last decade of the 20th and the first 21st centuries in Russia is characterized by an encyclopedia boom. Encyclopedias of the regions (republics of Bashkortostan, Tatarstan, Chuvashia, Chelyabinsk, Saratov and another ones), large and small cities (Moscow, Chelyabinsk, Zlatoust), as well as encyclopedias of administrative districts, and rural settlements are published. The article describes the conditions and background for the compiling of encyclopedias of small territories.