The Azerbaijani Soviet Encyclopedia (in Azerbaijani

Azerbaijani language

Azerbaijani or Azeri or Torki is a language belonging to the Turkic language family, spoken in southwestern Asia by the Azerbaijani people, primarily in Azerbaijan and northwestern Iran...

: Azərbaycan Sovet Ensiklopediyası, Cyrillic: Азәрбајҹан Совет Енсиклопедијасы) is a 10 volume universal encyclopedia

Encyclopedia

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 published in Baku

Baku

Baku , sometimes spelled as Baki or Bakou, is the capital and largest city of Azerbaijan, as well as the largest city on the Caspian Sea and of the Caucasus region. It is located on the southern shore of the Absheron Peninsula, which projects into the Caspian Sea. The city consists of two principal...

, Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan , officially the Republic of Azerbaijan is the largest country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded by the Caspian Sea to the east, Russia to the north, Georgia to the northwest, Armenia to the west, and Iran to...

from 1976 to 1987. The special volume dedicated to Azerbaijan was scheduled to be published after the main 10 volumes, but due to rising political problems and difficult economic situation it has not been published.

List of volumes by publication date

1. Volume I, 1976
2. Volume II, 1978
3. Volume III, 1979
4. Volume IV, 1980
5. Volume V, 1981
6. Volume VI, 1982
7. Volume VII, 1983
8. Volume VIII,1984
9. Volume IX, 1986
10. Volume X, 1987