To find out what a torrent is, who hipsters are and when they celebrate medic's day, it is not at all necessary to turn to thick volumes of encyclopedias. It is enough to go to a virtual resource and in a few minutes find out comprehensive information on your request.
Our today's Top 5 has collected the largest Internet encyclopedias of the Runet... Similar resources in all countries of the world. So, the largest are the Chinese Hudong.com, as well as the English and German sections of Wikipedia.
5. Megabook.ru - Mega-encyclopedia 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 of the articles contain illustrations and videos, which favorably 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 variety of dictionaries, both in Russian and in foreign languages. For example, a dictionary of military terms and an English-Russian legal dictionary.
3. Encyclopedia.ru - World of encyclopedias
The resource contains not the articles themselves, but links to the sites of the most diverse, universal and specialized encyclopedias. Before sending the user to the link, "World of Encyclopedias" will tell you how the search works on the specified site, how many articles and illustrations there are. On the page you can find links to general reference publications, resources on psychology, philosophy, mathematics, art and other areas of knowledge.
2. Krugosvet.ru - Universal popular science encyclopedia "KRUGOSVET"
The resource has been operating since 2005. Today the Krugosvet database contains more than 200,000 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 the published articles is very lively, popular science. At the same time, the authors and editors of the project are authoritative figures of Russian science.
1.en.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 topics 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 reliability of information on Wikipedia raises criticism from experts. But all the same, it is this resource that is the most popular, and not only on the Runet.