Reference Books of 2015–2016: A Selection

Many of the approximately 1,000 articles in this standard reference work deal with the hydrology, hydrography, and geography of the Baltic Sea, but there are also numerous articles about individual ships, sea battles, treaties, historical events, and personalities, with some emphasis on Russian naval officers and operations during both World Wars.Bibliographic control of publications on regional studies is a longstanding responsibility of the Russian National Library and this retrospective de visu bibliography includes 3,644 partly annotated entries for selected books, periodical articles, and articles in collections, dissertation abstracts, and reviews (regardless of date) about the history, theory, and current state of regional studies for a twenty-year period.Fulfilling their traditional responsibility for covering Russian regional bibliography, librarians at the Russian National Library in St. Petersburg have produced this useful guide and bibliography of regional encyclopedias, including illustrations and portraits, with 48 pages of color plates covering each encyclopedia. 560 printed and electronic works are included with author and title indexes.First compiled in electronic format, a total of 23,000 citations are in database.