Great Ukrainian Encyclopedia

The State Research Institution “Encyclopedia Press” dates back to 1957, when the Editorial Office of the “Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia” was established. In 1991, after the collapse of the USSR, it was renamed the Mykola Bazhan State Publishing House “Ukrainian Encyclopedia”. In 2013, the publishing house was reorganized into a research institution.

Since 2013, the institution has been developing a new reference source, namely the Great Ukrainian Encyclopedia (Велика українська енциклопедія, VUE). It is the first general encyclopedia to be published in Ukraine since 1991 as a state-supported national project. As part of the project, it publishes a multi-volume universal encyclopedia and maintains a comprehensive online encyclopedia (e-VUE). The online encyclopedia uses interactive and multimedia tools, e.g., short videos, maps, diagrams, etc. It also contains audio versions of published articles. The institution preserves and develops the traditions of Ukrainian encyclopedias from the 20th century, which were created both in Kyiv (initially under Soviet censorship) and in exile. The Encyclopedia Press works on an editorially controlled encyclopedia, inviting authors from universities and research institutes from the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. The average length of an article is 2,000 to 12,000 characters (some articles are much longer). The planned number of articles is about 100,000. In addition, the institution organizes annual conferences on the history and theory of publishing encyclopedias and other reference books, publishes collective volumes on this topic, etc.

You can find information on the Encyclopedia Press' activities on the institution's website and its page on Facebook. The Great Ukrainian Encyclopedia website was launched in 2015. The encyclopedia's content is also distributed through social media, especially on Facebook.