Encyclopedic Dictionary Literary Yekaterinburg

The review covers a unique product by scholars of Yekaterinburg – encyclopedic dictionary " Literary Ekaterinburg" (2016). The purpose of the article is to provide a system characteristic of its structure, specificity, subject of articles. It is noted that the dictionary is intended to reflect the literary life of Yekaterinburg in its entirety, to capture it in both synchronic and diachronic aspects. The main advantage of the publication is its informativeness: the dictionary contains not only biographical information about the participants of the Yekaterinburg literary process, but also bibliographic information that covers both the literary and sociocultural reality of the city. Despite the fact that the principle of presenting knowledge in an encyclopedic dictionary does not traditionally imply the formation of a whole picture, Literary Yekaterinburg presents a single idea of the literary process of Yekaterinburg. This is due to the representation of literature as a living, developing phenomenon and as a universally significant cultural event that transcends the region’s borders and is written in the history of the country. It is concluded that “Literary Yekaterinburg” illustrates an important tendency, according to which the usual understanding of the term “literary province” becomes irrelevant, giving way to looking at regional literature as a bright, original phenomenon that needs to be studied. The review is of undoubted interest for philologists who study the phenomenon of regional literature in general or of Yekaterinburg literature in particular, as well as for all readers who want to get an idea of the encyclopedic dictionary “Literary Yekaterinburg”.

literary Yekaterinburg, regional literature, encyclopedic dictionary