NOVO-OGARYOVO, March 2 (RIA Novosti) - The 30-volume Great Russian Encyclopedia will come out in full in 2012-2013, six years ahead of schedule, the president of Russia's Academy of Sciences said on Monday.
Yury Osipov, who also heads the encyclopedia's editorial board, said the Academy had published 12 regular volumes and an additional one called "Russia" since 2002, when it was ordered by then president and current prime minister Vladimir Putin.
Osipov said an online version of the encyclopedia was also planned.
The Great Soviet Encyclopedia was published in three editions of 65, 50 and 30 volumes between 1926 and 1981.
