Kazakh Soviet Encyclopedia

The Kazakh Soviet Encyclopedia (Қазақ Совет энциклопедиясы, Qazaq Sovet Entsıklopedııasy) was a multi-purpose encyclopedia of Kazakhstan issued in the Soviet Union. Kazakh Soviet Encyclopedia was printed in 12 volumes + 1 volume in Almaty from 1972 to 1978 (the thirteenth, extra, volume was published in 1980). An additional four-volume, Kazakh SSR, was published in both Kazakh and Russian from 1985 to 1989.

Each volume had 40,000 copies. The number of pages of each volume is listed below: • First – 648

• Second – 640

• Third – 624

• Fourth – 672

• Fifth – 656

• Sixth – 640

• Seventh – 648

• Eighth – 664

• Ninth – 640

• Tenth – 648

• Eleventh – 632

• Twelfth – 600

• Thirteenth (extra volume) – 752