Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary

The Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary (Russian: Энциклопедический словарь Гранат, romanized: Entsiklopedicheskiy slovar' Granat) is a Russian encyclopedic dictionary originally published in 58 volumes with one supplement throughout both the Tsarist and Soviet periods.

The dictionary's full title is The Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Granat Russian Bibliographical Institute (Russian: Энциклопедический словарь Русского библиографического института Гранат, romanized: Entsiklopedicheskiy slovar' Russkogo bibliograficheskogo instituta Granat).

[2] The dictionary's large size allowed each entry sufficient space to present relatively full information.

[2] Among the dictionary's contributors and editors were Vladimir Lenin, who wrote on Karl Marx,[2] botanist Kliment Timiryazev, anthropologist Dmitry Anuchin, biologist Ilya Mechnikov and economist Alexander Konyus.

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