The list of encyclopedias is sorted by subject and chronology , starting with universal encyclopedias and further on in all areas of knowledge, covering the last 4 millennia of human history .
Content
Universal
- Debt ( XX century BC )
- Ramesseum Onomasticon ( XVIII century BC )
- Spring and Autumn of Mr. Lui ( 239 BC )
- Natural History ( 77 )
- Amara's Dictionary ( 380 - 415 )
- On the marriage of Philology and Mercury ( V c. )
- Etymology ( 620 - 633 )
- Political Code ( 801 )
- Fortress ( X century )
- Messages from the brothers of purity and friends of fidelity (X c.)
- Historical Vault ( 1161 )
- The Great Mirror ( 1228 - 1264 )
- Studies of ancient texts and their traditions by Ma Duanlin ( 1317 )
- Yongle Encyclopedia ( 1408 )
- A sea of secrets regarding the noble valor ( 1634 - 1640 )
- Universal Lexicon ( 1677 - 1698 )
- Cyclopedia ( 1728 - 1788 )
- Complete collection of books of antiquity and modernity (1728)
- Encyclopedia, or Explanatory Dictionary of Sciences, Arts and Crafts ( 1751 - 1780 )
- Britannica (since 1768 )
- Complete collection of books in four sections ( 1782 )
- Lexicon of the Russian historical, geographical, political and civil Tatishchev ( 1793 )
- Brockhaus ( 1796 - 2006 )
- Americana (since 1829 )
- Encyclopedic lexicon ( 1834 - 1841 )
- Meyer Encyclopedic Dictionary ( 1839 - 1979 )
- Reference Encyclopedic Dictionary of Starchevsky ( 1847 - 1855 )
- The Modern Encyclopedia of Mellado (1851-1855)
- Orgelbrand Universal Encyclopedia ( 1859 - 1912 )
- Encyclopedic dictionary compiled by Russian scientists and writers ( 1861 - 1863 )
- Nordisk familjebok ( 1876 - 1957 )
- Great Encyclopedia ( 1886 - 1978 )
- Otto Scientific Encyclopedia ( 1888 - 1909 )
- Encyclopedic Dictionary of Brockhaus and Efron ( 1890 - 1907 )
- Pallash Encyclopedic Dictionary ( 1893 - 1900 )
- Encyclopedic Dictionary of Salmonsen (1893-1949)
- Garden of Antiquities ( 1896 - 1998 )
- Great Encyclopedia of Yuzhakov (1900-1909)
- Encyclopedia of Collier ( 1902 - 1997 )
- Small Laruss (since 1905 )
- Encyclopedia of Espace ( 1908 - 2008 )
- Encyclopedic Dictionary Pomegranate ( 1910 - 1948 )
- World book encyclopedia (since 1917 )
- Great Soviet Encyclopedia ( 1926 - 1990 )
- Small Soviet Encyclopedia ( 1928 - 1960 )
- Italian Encyclopedia (1929-2006)
- Swedish Encyclopedia (1929-1955)
- Great Encyclopedia of Portugal and Brazil ( 1937 - 2000 )
- Jewish Encyclopedia (1949-1996)
- Great Encyclopedia of Laruss (since 1960)
- Encyclopedia of the State Scientific Publishing House ( 1962 - 2014 )
- Barsa (since 1964 )
- Great Encyclopedia Spectrum ( 1974 - 1984 )
- Brief Jewish Encyclopedia ( 1976 - 2005 )
- Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ( 1978 - 2007 )
- Soviet Encyclopedic Dictionary ( 1979 - 1989 )
- Great Chinese Encyclopedia ( 1980 - 1993 )
- Iranika (since 1982 )
- Nipponica (1984-2003)
- National Encyclopedia (1989-1996)
- Great Encyclopedic Dictionary ( 1991 - 2002 )
- Encarta (1993-2009)
- Great Danish Encyclopedia (since 1994 )
- Great Encyclopedia of Cyril and Methodius (since 1996)
- Belarusian Encyclopedia (1996-2004)
- Georgian Encyclopedia (since 1997)
- Kazakhstan (1998-2007)
- Big interactive multimedia encyclopedia (since 1998)
- Croatian Encyclopedia ( 1999-2009 )
- Oxford Illustrated Encyclopedia (1999-2001)
- Around the World (since 2000)
- Estonia (since 2000)
- Kyrgyzstan (2000—2015)
- National Encyclopedia of Uzbekistan (2000-2006)
- English Wikipedia (since 2001)
- Swedish Wikipedia (since 2001)
- German Wikipedia (since 2001)
- Netherlands Wikipedia (since 2001)
- French Wikipedia (since 2001)
- Russian Wikipedia (since 2001)
- Italian Wikipedia (since 2001)
- Spanish Wikipedia (since 2001)
- Polish Wikipedia (since 2001)
- Japanese Wikipedia (since 2001)
- Portuguese Wikipedia (since 2001)
- Catalan Wikipedia (since 2001)
- Norwegian Wikipedia (since 2001)
- Basque Wikipedia (since 2001)
- Universal Lithuanian Encyclopedia (2001—2014)
- Encyclopedia of modern Ukraine (since 2001)
- Vietnamese Wikipedia (since 2002)
- Chinese Wikipedia (since 2002)
- Finnish Wikipedia (since 2002)
- Czech Wikipedia (since 2002)
- Korean Wikipedia (since 2002)
- Malay Wikipedia (since 2002)
- Turkish Wikipedia (since 2002)
- Danish Wikipedia (since 2002)
- Kazakh Wikipedia (since 2002)
- Slovenian Wikipedia (since 2002)
- Estonian Wikipedia (since 2002)
- Greek Wikipedia (since 2002)
- Azerbaijan Wikipedia (since 2002)
- Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (since 2002)
- Latvian Encyclopedia (2002-2009)
- Persian Wikipedia (since 2003)
- Arab Wikipedia (since 2003)
- Hungarian Wikipedia (since 2003)
- Indonesian Wikipedia (since 2003)
- Romanian Wikipedia (since 2003)
- Serbian Wikipedia (since 2003)
- Bulgarian Wikipedia (since 2003)
- Slovak Wikipedia (since 2003)
- Hebrew Wikipedia (since 2003)
- Lithuanian Wikipedia (since 2003)
- Croatian Wikipedia (since 2003)
- Galician Wikipedia (since 2003)
- Uzbek Wikipedia (since 2003)
- Thai Wikipedia (since 2003)
- Hindi Wikipedia (since 2003)
- Georgian Wikipedia (since 2003)
- Brief Russian Encyclopedia (2003)
- New Russian Encyclopedia (2003—2018)
- Banglapedia (2003)
- Ukrainian Wikipedia (since 2004)
- Urdu Wikipedia (since 2004)
- Great Russian Encyclopedia (2004—2017)
- Armenian Wikipedia (since 2005)
- Chechen Wikipedia (since 2005)
- Khudun (since 2005)
- Vietnamese Encyclopedic Dictionary (2005)
- Canned Food (since 2006)
- Metapedia (since 2006)
- Baidu (since 2006)
- Citizens Directory (since 2006)
- Great Encyclopedia Terra (2006)
- Belarusian Wikipedia (since 2007)
- Estonian Encyclopedic Dictionary (2008)
- Moldavian Encyclopedia (since 2009)
- EcuRed (since 2010 )
- Azerbaijan National Encyclopedia (since 2010)
- Tajik National Encyclopedia (since 2011 )
- Gwangmyeon ( 2012 )
Agrarian
- Agricultural Encyclopedia (1932-1975)
- Agricultural Encyclopedic Dictionary (1989)
Biographical
- Dictionary of the memorable people of the Russian land (1836-1847)
- Biographical Dictionary of the Austrian Empire (1856–1891)
- General German Biography (1875-1912)
- Russian Biographical Dictionary (1896-1918)
- Swedish Biographical Dictionary (since 1917)
- Figures of the revolutionary movement in Russia (1927-1934)
- Polish Biographical Dictionary (since 1935)
- Biographical Dictionary of the Figures of Natural Sciences and Technology (1958-1959)
- Russian writers 1800-1917 (1989-2007)
- Figures of science and education of Moscow (1999-2006)
- Estonian Biographical Dictionary (2002)
Biological
- The history of animals (1551-1587)
- Animal Life (1968-1989)
- Plant Life (1974-1982)
- Veterinary Encyclopedic Dictionary (1981)
- Biological Encyclopedic Dictionary (1986-1989)
- Encyclopedia of Life (since 2008)
Theological
- Seven extracts from the cloud book depository (1017-1021)
- The means of Shiites to comprehend the questions of Sharia (1664-1693)
- Biblical Encyclopedia of Archimandrite Nicephorus (1891-1892)
- Orthodox Theological Encyclopedia (1900-1911)
- Catholic Encyclopedia (1907-1958)
- Complete Orthodox Theological Encyclopedic Dictionary (1913)
- Encyclopedia of Islam (since 1913)
- The Real Theological Encyclopedia (1977-2004)
- Brockhaus Bible Encyclopedia (1999)
- Orthodox Encyclopedia (since 2000)
- Encyclopedia of the Koran (2001-2006)
- Catholic Encyclopedia (2002—2013)
- Islam (since 2008)
Military
- Notes on Weapons and Military Equipment (1628)
- Military Encyclopedic Lexicon (1837-1858)
- Encyclopedia of Military and Naval Sciences (1883-1897)
- Sytin Military Encyclopedia (1911-1915)
- Military Encyclopedia (1958-1985)
- Soviet military encyclopedia (1976-1980)
- Military Encyclopedic Dictionary (1983-2007)
Geographic
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854)
- Geographical and statistical dictionary of the Russian Empire (1863-1885)
- Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland and other Slavic countries (1880-1902)
- Brief Geographic Encyclopedia (1960-1966)
- Countries and peoples (1978-1985)
- Encyclopedic Geographic Dictionary (1986-2003)
- Geographical Encyclopedia of Ukraine (1989-1993)
- Peoples and religions of the world (1998)
Mountain
- Mountain Encyclopedia (1984-1991)
- Mountain Encyclopedic Dictionary (2001-2004)
- Small Mountain Encyclopedia (2004—2013)
Baby
- Children's Encyclopedia (1958-1978)
- What? Who it? (1968-1994)
- Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Young ... (1979-2006)
- Encyclopedia for children (1993-2012)
Art
- Riemann's Musical Dictionary (1882-2001)
- Grove's Musical Dictionary (since 1889)
- The general vocabulary of artists from antiquity to modernity (since 1907)
- Harvard Music Dictionary (1944-2003)
- Music in history and modernity (1949-2008)
- The Musical Encyclopedia (1973-1982)
- Cinema (1987)
- Musical Encyclopedic Dictionary (1990-1991)
- Who is who in Russian rock music (1991-2009)
- Discogs (since 2000)
- Chronicle of the world opera (2005—2015)
- Encyclopedia of domestic animation (2006)
Historical
- The real encyclopedia of the science of classical antiquity (since 1839)
- The Real Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1855-1914)
- Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)
- Soviet historical encyclopedia (1961-1976)
- Dictionary of Antiquity (1971-1990)
- Civil war and military intervention in the USSR (1983-1987)
- Encyclopedia of the History of Belarus (1993-2003)
- Three centuries of St. Petersburg (since 2001)
- Russian Freemasonry 1731-2000 (2001)
- Ukrainian Cossacks (2002)
- Encyclopedia of the History of Ukraine (2003—2013)
- Grand Duchy of Lithuania (2005-2010)
- Russian historical encyclopedia of Chubaryan (since 2015)
Linguistic
- Encyclopedia of Esperanto (1933)
- Cyril and Methodius Encyclopedia (1985-2003)
- Linguistic Encyclopedic Dictionary (1990-2002)
- World Languages (since 1993)
- Slavic antiquities (1995-2012)
- Ukrainian language (2000—2013)
Literature
- A Thousand Books (845–855)
- Literary Encyclopedia (1929-1939)
- Brief Encyclopedia of Literature (1962-1978)
- Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (1979-1999)
- Encyclopedic Literary Dictionary (1987)
- Ukrainian Literary Encyclopedia (1988-1995)
- Encyclopedia “Words about Igor’s Regiment” (1995)
- Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997)
Math
- Mathematical Encyclopedia (1977-1985)
- Mathematical Encyclopedic Dictionary (1988)
Medical
- Big Medical Encyclopedia (1928-1988)
- Brief Medical Encyclopedia (1972-1989)
Mythological
- Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology (1884-1937)
- Myths of the peoples of the world (1980-1997)
- Mythological Dictionary (1990)
Regional
- Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron (1908-1913)
- Siberian Soviet Encyclopedia (1929-1992)
- Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia (1959-1985)
- History of cities and villages of the Ukrainian SSR (1968-1974)
- Estonian Soviet Encyclopedia (1968-2006)
- Great Catalan Encyclopedia (since 1969)
- Belorussian Soviet Encyclopedia (1969-1975)
- Uzbek Soviet Encyclopedia (1971-1988)
- Kazakh Soviet Encyclopedia (1972-1982)
- Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia (1974-1987)
- Turkmen Soviet Encyclopedia (1974-1989)
- Georgian Soviet Encyclopedia (1975-1987)
- Lithuanian Soviet Encyclopedia (1976-1985)
- Azerbaijan Soviet Encyclopedia (1976-1987)
- Tajik Soviet Encyclopedia (1978-1988)
- Moscow (1980)
- Kiev (1981-1986)
- Latvian Soviet Encyclopedia (1981-1988)
- Encyclopedia of Slovenia (1987-2002)
- Armenian Brief Encyclopedia (1990-2003)
- Jewish Virtual Library (since 1993)
- Russian Jewish Encyclopedia (1994—2011)
- Encyclopedia of the land of Vyatka (1994-2008)
- Karaite People's Encyclopedia (1995-2007)
- English-Russian linguistic and regional dictionary "Americana" (1996)
- Kursk (1997)
- Moscow (1997)
- Komi Republic. Encyclopedia (1997-2000)
- The Germans of Russia (1999-2006)
- Tatar Encyclopedic Dictionary (1999-2002)
- Penza Encyclopedia (2001)
- Tatar Encyclopedia (2002—2015)
- Mordovia (2003-2004)
- Great Tyumen Encyclopedia (2004-2009)
- Northern Encyclopedia (2004)
- Bashkir Encyclopedia (2005—2011)
- The spiritual culture of China (2006—2010)
- Chuvash Encyclopedia (2006—2011)
- Karelia (2007—2011)
- Encyclopedia of the Republic of Khakassia (2007-2008)
- Voronezh Encyclopedia (2008)
- Kola Encyclopedia (2008—2013)
- Encyclopedia of the Republic of Mari El (2009)
Sports
- Great Olympic Encyclopedia (2006)
Technical
- Dictionary of all technology (1894-1972)
- Industry and technology (1901-1904)
- Technical Encyclopedia (1927-1941)
- Mechanical Engineering (1946-1951)
- Encyclopedia of Cybernetics (1973-1974)
- Jargon file (since 1975)
- Russian architectural and construction encyclopedia (1995—2017)
- History of domestic electronic computing (2014)
Physical
- Physical Encyclopedic Dictionary (1983)
- Physical Encyclopedia (1988-1998)
Philosophical
- Encyclopedic presentation of Masonic, Hermetic, Kabbalistic and Rosicrucian symbolic philosophy (1928)
- Philosophical Encyclopedia (1960-1970)
- Encyclopedia of Philosophy (1967-2006)
- Historical Dictionary of Philosophy (1971-2007)
- Philosophical Encyclopedic Dictionary (1983)
- Encyclopedia of Delusions (since 1994)
- Stanford Philosophical Encyclopedia (since 1995)
- Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy (1998)
- New Philosophical Encyclopedia (2000—2010)
- Encyclopedia of Pseudoscience (2000)
- Encyclopedia of Pseudoscience "Skeptic" (2002)
- RazioViki (since 2007)
Chemicals
- Chemical Encyclopedia (1988-1998)
Legal
- Encyclopedic Law Dictionary (1984-1987)
- Legal Encyclopedia (2001)