Georgian Soviet Encyclopedia
Encyclopedia
The Georgian Soviet Encyclopedia is the first universal encyclopedia in the Georgian language
, printed in Tblissi from 1965. The encyclopedia includes 11 alphabetic volumes and a 12th exclusively dedicated to the Georgian SSR, printed in both Georgian and Russian.
The main editor was Irakli Abashidze
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Georgian language
Georgian is the native language of the Georgians and the official language of Georgia, a country in the Caucasus.Georgian is the primary language of about 4 million people in Georgia itself, and of another 500,000 abroad...
, printed in Tblissi from 1965. The encyclopedia includes 11 alphabetic volumes and a 12th exclusively dedicated to the Georgian SSR, printed in both Georgian and Russian.
The main editor was Irakli Abashidze
Irakli Abashidze
Irakli Abashidze was a Georgian poet, literary scholar and politician.Born in Khoni, Georgia , he graduated from Tbilisi State University in 1931 and attended the 1st Congress of the USSR Union of Writers, 1934, when socialist realism was laid down as the cultural orthodoxy...
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