NEW ELECTRONIC ENCYCLOPEDIA PUBLISHED IN RUSSIA.
Published:
30 December 1999 y., Thursday
The Kirill i Mefodii (Cyril and Methodius) company has released the newest version of its Bolshaya Encyclopedia Kirilla i Mefodia, the BEKM 2000. The BEKM 2000 is a unique publication in Russia, both for the volume of information it contains as well as for how it is presented. This is the fourth publication of this universal Russian encyclopedia, containing 1.3 gigbytes of information, which is equal to 50, regular format, 600-page tomes (not including the audio and video information included). The CD is available in two versions, on 2 CDs or on 7. The various multimedia supplements to the encyclopedia complement the information included.
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