File:GSE 3rd edition 1st volume title.jpg

Summary
Image salvaged from commons.

Title page of vol. I of the 3rd edition of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia, published 1969 – 1978.

Licensing
History: the image was originally uploaded by commons:User:Cmapm to the commons on December 8, 2005 (under the same name) and claimed to be in the public domain (using a since then disputed tag named PD-Soviet claiming all pre-1973 Soviet works were in the public domain outside of Russia or the CIS nations.)


 * (del) (cur) 23:15, 8 December 2005 . . Cmapm (Talk | contribs) . . 783×1026 (78,570 bytes) (*ru:Титульный лист первого тома третьего издания «Большой Советской Энциклопедии» (1969-1978) *Title page of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd ed. )

The public domain claim directly contradicts the guidelines at the Russian Wikipedia for use of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia, see ru:Википедия:Авторские права. Also see Talk:Great Soviet Encyclopedia.