To find out what torrent is, who hipsters are and when they celebrate a physician’s day, it’s not necessary to turn to thick volumes of encyclopedias. It is enough to go to the virtual resource and in a few minutes to find out comprehensive information on your request.
Our today's Top 5 has collected the largest online encyclopedia of Runet. Similar resources in all countries of the world. So, the largest are the Chinese Hudong.com, as well as the English and German Wikipedia sections.
5. Megabook.ru - Megaencyclopedia of Cyril and Methodius
The online encyclopedia contains 150 thousand articles and 60 thousand media objects. The resource has a universal theme and is intended primarily for pupils - schoolchildren and students. There are articles on biology, geography, history, technology and other fields of knowledge. Most articles contain illustrations and videos, which distinguishes the project from simply digitized paper encyclopedias.
4. Dic.academic.ru - Academician
Academician is a huge collection of encyclopedias on a variety of topics: from the Great Soviet to the Encyclopedia of medieval weapons. The resource offers to download free applications for Android and iOS. In addition to encyclopedias, the site contains a great many dictionaries, both in Russian and in foreign languages. For example, a dictionary of military terms and an English-Russian law dictionary.
3. Encyclopedia.ru - The World of Encyclopedias
The resource does not contain the articles themselves, but links to the websites of various, universal and specialized encyclopedias. Before sending the user a link, the World of Encyclopedias tells you how the search on the specified site works, how many articles and illustrations there are. On the page you can find links to general reference books, resources on psychology, philosophy, mathematics, art and other fields of knowledge.
2. Krugosvet.ru - The universal popular science encyclopedia "KRUGOSVET"
The resource has been operating since 2005. Today the base of the "World" contains more than 200 thousand articles on culture and art, geography, science and technology, etc. It is noteworthy that the articles contain not only classical information, but also information about modern trends and trends. The style of published articles is very lively, popular science. At the same time, the compilers and editors of the project are authoritative figures of Russian science.
1.wikipedia.org - Wikipedia
Wikipedia is a free encyclopedia, which means that the authors of the articles for this comprehensive source are the visitors themselves. Therefore, information is updated very quickly, articles on topical issues appear as quickly as possible. The Russian-language section of Wikipedia contains more than 800 thousand articles, and their number is constantly growing. The main disadvantage the largest online encyclopedia - This is the subjectivity of some articles. Sometimes the accuracy of information on Wikipedia is criticized by experts. But still, this particular resource is the most popular, and not only in Runet.