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Tajik Soviet Encyclopedia

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Tajik Soviet Encyclopedia
LanguageTajik and Russian
SubjectGeneral
GenreReference encyclopaedia
Publication placeTajik SSR, USSR

The Tajik Soviet Encyclopedia (Tajik: Энциклопедияи советии тоҷик) is the first universal encyclopedia in the Tajik language, published in Dushanbe from 1978 to 1988 in eight volumes. An additional volume, Tajik SSR, was published in both Tajik and Russian.[citation needed]

It includes more than 23,000 articles (VIII, p. 197) in a total of 4904 pages plus 242 folios (mostly in color) of additional figures and maps. Each volume measures 20 x 26 cm, printed in a triple-column format. It was published in a run of 15-23,000 copies.

The main editor was the president of the Academy of Sciences of the Tajik SSR, Mukhamed Asimov.

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