The Big Explanatory Dictionary. Volume 1, Volume 2

Lev Ivanovich Skvortsov – Doctor of Philological Sciences, Professor, Linguist and Lexicographer, author of popular science and educational materials on the culture of Russian speech.
This edition is a two-volume dictionary of a new linguistic-encyclopedic type.
The dictionary combines linguistic descriptions (interpretations... of words and expressions) with historical-encyclopedic, terminological, and subject-oriented explanations of the very realities – things, phenomena, and events that underlie the facts of language. The dictionary article indicates the stress and, in difficult cases, the pronunciation, provides grammatical forms, stylistic characterization, examples of usage, and widely reveals phraseological features. The dictionary is aimed at a broad audience and will be useful to anyone interested in the Russian language and the culture of Russia, who seeks to improve their speech culture and expand their knowledge of their native language.
The two-volume dictionary contains 100,000 words, derived words and forms, stable expressions, and phraseological units.
Special edition for the project "Word of the Year".