Author | Sergei Ivanovich Ozhegov |
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Original title | Словарь русского языка |
Language | Russian |
Subject | General |
Genre | Reference encyclopedia |
Publisher | M. O. Wolf |
Publication date | 1949 and on |
Publication place | USSR |
Media type | 1 volume (hardbound) |
Dictionary of the Russian Language (Russian: Слова́рь ру́сского языка́) is an explanatory dictionary of the Russian language. The first edition was published under the editorship of Ozhegov in 1949.[1] It contained about 57,000 words; its 21st edition (1990) counted 70,000 word entries. From 1992 the dictionary is released with the names of two co-authors, Ozhegov and Shvedova.