ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Great Soviet Encyclopedia

The Great Soviet Encyclopedia was like a big book of information in the olden times when the Soviet Union was still around. It had lots and lots of pages with lots and lots of words and pictures about all sorts of things that people wanted to learn about.

It was made by lots of smart people who knew a lot about different things, so they could explain them really well in the book. They wrote about history, science, art, people, animals, and just about anything you could think of.

People loved the Great Soviet Encyclopedia because it was like having a whole library in one big book. You could read it and learn about lots of things without having to go to a bunch of different places.

It was a big deal because it had so much information and was seen as a way to spread knowledge to everyone in the Soviet Union. So lots of people had access to it and would use it to learn new things.