Author Publisher Olimpia Press | Publication date 2006 Originally published 2006 Country Russia | |
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Pages 784 pp (1st volume)968 pp (2nd volume) Genres Reference work, Encyclopedia | ||
The Great Olympic Encyclopedia (Russian: Большая олимпийская энциклопедия, or БОЭ; transliterated Bolshaya olimpiyskaya entsiklopediya) is the 3rd Olympic encyclopedia in Russian, issued by the Bolshaya Rossiyskaya entsiklopediya state publisher. In 2007, the Great Olympic Encyclopedia has been included in Yandex.Dictionaries.
Summary
The encyclopedia has only one author Valeri Shteinbakh, and contains 10,070 entries about the history of the Ancient Olympic Games, the results of the Summer Olympic Games and the Winter Olympic Games, the sports included or not in the Olympics, biographies of the sportspersons and other trivia.
References
Great Olympic Encyclopedia Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA