Editing Russian language (section)

== Vocabulary ==
[[File:Karion Istomin's alphabet P.jpg|thumb|This page from an "ABC" book printed in Moscow in 1694 shows the letter '''[[П]]'''.]]

The number of listed words or entries in some of the major dictionaries published during the past two centuries, are as follows:<ref>[http://www.gramota.ru/slovari/types/17_26 ''What types of dictionaries exist?''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120117151535/http://www.gramota.ru/slovari/types/17_26 |date=17 January 2012}} from www.gramota.ru {{in lang|ru}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://yarus.asu.edu.ru/?id=426|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120112125045/http://www.yarus.aspu.ru/?id=426|url-status=dead|title={section.caption}|archive-date=12 January 2012|website=yarus.asu.edu.ru|access-date=16 February 2020}}</ref>

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! Work||Year||Words||Notes
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| Academic dictionary, I Ed.||1789–1794||43,257||Russian and Church Slavonic with some Old Russian vocabulary.
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| Academic dictionary, II Ed||1806–1822||51,388||Russian and Church Slavonic with some Old Russian vocabulary.
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| Academic dictionary, III Ed.||1847||114,749||Russian and Church Slavonic with Old Russian vocabulary.
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| ''[[Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language]]'' ([[Vladimir Dahl|Dahl]]'s)||1880–1882||195,844||44,000 entries lexically grouped; attempt to catalogue the full vernacular language. Contains many dialectal, local, and obsolete words.
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| ''[[Explanatory Dictionary of the Russian Language (Ushakov)|Explanatory Dictionary of the Russian Language]]'' ([[Dmitry Ushakov|Ushakov]]'s)||1934–1940||85,289||Current language with some archaisms.
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| Academic Dictionary of the Russian Language ([[Sergey Ozhegov|Ozhegov]]'s)||1950–1965<br/>1991{{nbs}}(2nd{{nbs}}ed.)
||120,480||"Full" 17-volumed dictionary of the contemporary language. The second 20-volumed edition was begun in 1991, but not all volumes have been finished.
|-
<!-- odd name, how is it called in Russian? |Dictionary and Culture of Russian Speech||1950s–1960s||61,458||More or less than-current language.
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| Lopatin's dictionary||1999–2013||≈200,000||Orthographic, current language, several editions
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| Great Explanatory Dictionary of the Russian Language||1998–2009||≈130,000||Current language, the dictionary has many subsequent editions from the first one of 1998.
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| Russian [[Wiktionary]]||11 October 2021||442,533||Number of entries in the category [[wikt:ru:Category:Русский язык|Русский язык (Russian language)]] 
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