The government allocated 1 billion rubles to pay off the debts of the Big Russian Encyclopedia

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2024

Allocation of 1 billion rubles to pay debts of the Big Russian Encyclopedia

The government has allocated more than 1 billion rubles to pay off the debts of the Big Russian Encyclopedia. This became known in mid-December 2024.

As Forbes writes with reference to the agenda for the meeting of the Presidium of the Government Commission on Digital Development, the use of information technologies to improve entrepreneurial activity dated December 12, 2024, these funds are allocated to the ANO "National Scientific and Educational Center" Big Russian Encyclopedia "(BRE)" Ensuring the implementation of programs and projects in the field of digital economy and the development of the information society "state program" Information Society. "

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Freepik

The Ministry of Digital Development confirmed to the publication that the ANO BDE allocated 1.06 billion rubles from the government reserve fund.

The funds will be spent mainly on the repayment of current financial obligations of the BDE, including the payment of wage arrears for employees. Currently, most of the wages have already been paid, the department said.

By mid-December 2024, the Ministry of Digital Development is holding consultations with interested departments and organizations, including the ANO, on the "Ruwiki" further functioning of the BRE portal and the use of the created scientific and educational content, the ministry added.

Forbes recalls that earlier BDE employees went to pickets, complaining about non-payment of salaries for nine months. The fact that they have not been charged a salary since December 2023, the project will be liquidated, and all the accumulated materials have been transferred to another analogue of Wikipedia - the private encyclopedia Ruviki, RBC wrote earlier. The executive editor of the portal, Sergei Kravets, told the publication that the company has 417 employees, of which almost 350 are employees of the editorial complex (editors, verification service, cartographers and others).^[1]

Liquidation of the project and transfer of materials to Ruviki

On October 7, 2024, it became known about the decision of the Russian government to liquidate the ANO "Big Russian Encyclopedia" (BRE) and transfer the accumulated materials of the Internet encyclopedia "Ruviki." This solution is aimed at strengthening the competitive advantages of the domestic encyclopedic resource and preserving valuable scientific developments.

According to RBC, citing sources close to the relevant departments and the government, ANO BRE has prepared 98 thousand articles during its work, of which only half were published on the portal of the Great Russian Encyclopedia. Of particular value is the fact that all articles of the encyclopedia have been verified by the scientific community.

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TAdviser

The government plans in the near future to allocate the necessary funding from the Reserve Fund to ANO BRE to pay off debts to employees, which was formed in 2024. Problems with the financing of the encyclopedia began in the spring of 2024, when employees reported non-payment of salaries from December 2023.

The Great Russian Encyclopedia, which is the successor to the Great Soviet Encyclopedia, was created in 2019 by government order as a nationwide interactive scientific and educational portal. The project was implemented with the financial support of the Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media of Russia.

The executive editor of the portal, Sergei Kravets, previously reported that the total budget of the BDE for 2024 was planned at about ₽1 billion, of which almost two-thirds were intended to pay wages. The organization had 417 employees, most of whom were involved in the editorial complex.

The Internet encyclopedia "Ruviki," to which the materials of the BDE will be transferred, began work in June 2023. As of October 2024, the resource contains more than 2 million articles in Russian.^[2]

2020

Increase the staff to work on the portal

In the first half of June 2020, the ANO "Big Russian Encyclopedia" should hire 40 scientific editors. So far, the organization has 180 people with a total staffing of 328 people. This was announced by TAdviser on June 8, 2020, the executive editor of the publishing house Sergey Kravets.

The pandemic forced to postpone hiring in particular only more than 40 scientific editors from April 1 to June 1. Despite the active remote work of all editions and services of the Great Russian Encyclopedia, the introduction of new employees in particular the work of the organization and their adaptation to the requirements of the site, as well as the mastery of its tools, require at least in the first months of constant presence and training, - explained TAdviser Sergey Kravets.

He also added that the formation of the portal team is progressively and is determined by the sequence of entering the necessary functionality and the actual possibilities for attracting leading specialists - scientific editors.

The increase in the number of employees will occur as the resource develops, - said Sergey Kravets.

Commissioning of the portal editorial system and its revision

The editorial system of the portal "Big Russian Encyclopedia" was put into operation to provide a working tool for employees of the publishing house of the same name. This was announced by TAdviser on May 26, 2020, the executive editor of the publishing house Sergey Kravets.

The editorial system of the resource is being finalized and developed. In particular, a new functionality for storing and processing content is being developed. Internal business processes of the publishing house are also analyzed and optimized, involving the creation of encyclopedic content, taking into account the gradual transition from paper to electronic document flow, these operations are automated. In addition, a process model of interaction between all full-time employees of the publishing house is being prepared for release, - Sergey Kravets informed TAdviser.

The process of forming the expert community and its main body, the scientific and editorial board, according to him, due to the situation with the pandemic, has been postponed from spring to summer 2020.

Abolish the Portal Team. The project is developing according to plan

On May 13, 2020, numerous media outlets, citing an order by Acting Prime Minister Andrei Belousov to abolish the working group on the creation of the Big Russian Encyclopedia portal of May 11, 2020, announced the closure of the project. Among them were the portals of Lenta.ru, Habr, as well as the magazine "Snob." This statement is not true. As explained in Rospechat, work on the site of the Big Russian Encyclopedia continues^[3].

According to the deputy head of the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications Alexei Volin, who was part of the group, the liquidation document is technical and testifies "to the complete fulfillment of the tasks."

Any working group is first created, and then after solving the problems facing it, it is liquidated, - explained Alexey Volin.

The portal "Big Russian Encyclopedia," which has already received the name "Knowledge," will be launched, as planned, in 2022, Rospechat reported.

Rospechat adds that the working group was disbanded, as it completed all its tasks to develop a plan for the implementation of the project. At the same time, in fact, the working group completed its activities even earlier - with the release of the order of the Government of the Russian Federation of November 29, 2019, which set the task of practical implementation of the project, the ANO "National Scientific and Educational Center" Big Russian Encyclopedia "was established. The government order of May 11, 2020 simply legally completed the activities of this group.

The department also noted that the working group did a lot of work: it developed and agreed on the provision on the resource with the definition of the most important areas of activity, a work plan for the creation of a portal, developed recommendations on the stage of implementation of this large-scale project, its personnel and financial support.

The website of the "Big Russian Encyclopedia" will be launched as planned in 2022. It will include an information part, as well as a research part, where polemical articles will be published and discussions will be held, informed in Rospechat, adding that the resource is being created outside of any connection with Wikipedia.

2019

Acceptance of works from the tender winner for development of the portal editorial system

In December 2019, Digital Banking Technologies (CBT) handed over to the Big Russian Encyclopedia (BRE) publishing house the results of work performed in accordance with the agreement concluded with it in September 2019 based on the results of a tender for the development of the editorial system of the Big Russian Encyclopedia portal. All the results of the work by the publishing house were accepted. This was announced to TAdviser by the executive editor of the publishing house "Big Russian Encyclopedia" (BRE) Sergey Kravets.

According to him, all the necessary work of the CBT was performed in accordance with the terms of reference. However, the development of such a complex system with inevitable constantly clarifying requirements on the part of the customer required closer cooperation between the developers and the scientific and editorial team.

Thus, at the beginning of 2020, the publishing house decided to transfer the development center directly to the publishing house as the project office of the resource and provide it with scientific and expert support from the FSBI ISP RAS. This, according to the plan, was supposed to ensure prompt accounting of development requirements, timely adjustment to the development of the website of the Big Russian Encyclopedia and full ownership of the publishing house, "Maxim Kushnirenko, head of the portal development office, explained to TAdviser.

The development of the editorial system of the portal continues on the basis of the source code developed and transferred by Digital Banking Technologies, but is carried out by the publishing house specialists. During 2020-2021. the staff of technical specialists of the publishing house will be expanded to successfully create a resource. At the same time, the publishing house plans to conduct tenders for the implementation of specific works on local tasks. They will be held in 2020-2021.

Government order on transfer of portal development from OJSC to ANO "BDE"

The project office of the portal "Big Russian Encyclopedia" is OJSC "Scientific Publishing House" Big Russian Encyclopedia "(OJSC" BRE "). Along with the company, there is ANO "Big Russian Encyclopedia" (ANO "BRE") - an independent legal entity created in accordance with the order of the government of the Russian Federation, published on November 26, 2019.

From 2021, the functions of the project office of the portal instead of OJSC BRE will begin to be performed by ANO BRE. 100% of the shares of OJSC BRE will be transferred to ANO BRE as a contribution of the founder, the government of the Russian Federation, to preserve the continuity and transfer of the entire array of intellectual property owned by OJSC BRE.

The organizational and legal form of ANO, unlike OJSC, fully complies with the declared socially useful and state-significant goals, and will also allow solving a number of technical and economic problems. It will open the possibility of applying the restrictions of exclusive rights allowed by the Civil Code of the Russian Federation and international treaties in which the Russian Federation participates in relation to the use of the results of intellectual activity for educational, scientific and other humanitarian purposes, will facilitate relations with Russian and foreign repositories of cultural values ​ ​ and similar foreign information resources, - explained TAdviser executive editor of the publishing house "Big Russian Encyclopedia" Sergey Kravets.

In addition, the use of such an organizational and legal form will create the possibility of additional sources of financing, the use of charitable, philanthropic, volunteer assistance and other forms of gratuitous cooperation, will lead to savings in costs associated with the used property, Kravets added.

ANO management bodies their structure and competence are established by the charter. However, the concept of the portal already provides for the formation of a permanent collegial governing body for the optimal distribution of functions and responsibilities of managers in three areas: scientific and editorial, development and promotion, organizational and economic. According to the concept, leaders of all areas will have to enter the collegial body.

The composition of the collegial body, as well as the appointment of the executive director, Chief information officer and financial director will be approved by the federal executive body authorized by the government of the Russian Federation. The editor-in-chief of the portal will be appointed by the government of the Russian Federation.

Also, separate powers of the founder, as stated in the approved charter of the organization, will be able to exercise. Rospechat The organization itself will be registered in, and the government of the To Moscow capital is recommended to assist in ensuring its necessary. real estate

The charter of ANO BDE states that it does not have profit-making as the main purpose of its activities. At the same time, the next paragraph says that she has the right to engage in entrepreneurial activities necessary to achieve the goal for which it was created. In addition, ANO BDE is allowed to own and otherwise have land plots, buildings, structures, as well as inventory and money, including in foreign currency, and at the same time securities.

Five categories of sources of funds are defined for ASO BDE. First of all, these are one-time receipts directly from the founder, as well as receipts from the federal budget of Russia. The organization will also be able to accept voluntary contributions and donations from Russian and foreign legal entities and individuals. The fourth category of sources is income received from property owned by the organization. In addition to this, ANO BDE will be able to receive money from all sources not prohibited by Russian law.

The creation of an ANO BDE has several goals. In particular, the organization will provide services for: ensuring citizens' access to knowledge, information, cultural values ​ ​ and benefits; systematization, updating and dissemination of modern scientific knowledge; ensuring interaction between competent sources of information, as well as promoting scientific support for the education system of Russia.

According to the charter of the Autonomous Non-Profit Organization, the subject of the organization's activities includes:

• creating and ensuring the operation of a constantly updated nationwide interactive encyclopedic portal,
• organization of scientific research, collection, processing and dissemination of accessible, prompt and reliable information on the state of the world and society, as well as information and analytical support for educational activities,
• expert and analytical support of scientific activities and monitoring of the world experience of scientific research and educational technologies.

The list of activities of the ANO includes: the creation and distribution of encyclopedic and other scientific, popular science and reference information resources; publishing, including on the Internet; production and distribution of multimedia products; development and dissemination of mass media; provision of editorial and publishing services; implementation of cartographic and map-publishing works and their production. In addition, ANO BDE will be able to conduct the educational activities^[4].

Order of Prime Minister Medvedev on the creation of the portal

At the end of 2019, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev signed a decree on the creation of a nationwide interactive encyclopedic portal and an autonomous non-profit organization "National Scientific and Educational Center" Big Russian Encyclopedia. "

Medvedev wants to create a Russian analogue of Wikipedia

The powers of the founder of the organization on behalf of the Russian Federation will be exercised by the government of the Russian Federation. Separate powers of the founder of the organization will be exercised by Rospechat in accordance with the charter of the organization.

This organization will be financed from the federal budget, at the expense of one-time receipts from the founder represented by the government, and at the expense of voluntary donations and income from the use of property at the disposal of the organization^[5]

Official presentation of the project and support by the regions

On November 21, 2019, the details of the creation of the portal "Big Russian Encyclopedia" (BDE), which is called the Russian analogue of Wikipedia, became known. The project was officially presented at a conference in Ufa.

As TASS reported with reference to the responsible editor of the scientific publishing house "Big Russian Encyclopedia" (BRE) Sergei Kravets, 270 people will work on the project (150 of them are full-time employees of the publishing house) for 33 months, and the volume of investments will be about 2 billion rubles. The launch of the resource is scheduled for the spring of 2022. At the same time, the authors of the site hope to launch test versions earlier.

The Russian analogue of Wikipedia is planned to be created by the spring of 2022

According to Kravets, authors will be paid fees for articles, scientific reviews, the introduction of new concepts, etc. He did not name their size. The work of authors and reviewers will be paid from the fee fund.

  Both the author and the editor will be responsible for the published information in the Russian analogue of Wikipedia, and all texts will undergo an encyclopedic cycle, which consists in fact checking, competent transliteration of names and geographical names, etc.

Sergei Kravets noted that the Russian project is designed primarily for teachers and students. All articles will be written by the authors on the terms of BDE, and people will be responsible for their competence "by their authority," he said.

A multi-level access system will be developed for portal users - from regular reading of articles for all users to participation in discussions at the expert level.

The editor of the BDE assured that Wikipedia will have its own audience, "which is not so important for the reliability of knowledge in detail." The main task of the project, he called the creation of a tool that would help Russians "navigate the knowledge," the volume of which doubles every one and a half to two years^[6].

During the conference held in Ufa, the project was supported by the regions.

We enlisted the support of encyclopedists in many regions of Russia, in particular - in St. Petersburg, Tatarstan, Bashkiria and Novosibirsk. The criteria and forms of use of both the content already created within the framework of regional encyclopedias and the involvement of authors and experts from the regions in the creation of new articles and slots have been developed, "Sergei Kravets informed TAdviser.

Replacement, but not the end of Wikipedia in Russia

There is no ban or obstacles to access Wikipedia and cannot be, Dmitry Peskov, press secretary of the Russian President, assured journalists on November 8, 2019.

He stated that after the meeting of the Russian Language Council, which was held the same week by President Vladimir Putin, a discussion arose related to the interpretation of the president's words.

The discussion unfolded on the topic of "Wikipedia" and "The Great Russian Encyclopedia," Dmitry Peskov specified.

According to him, Wikipedia is a respected, popular resource that is self-renewing.

What the president and some speakers [at a meeting of the Russian Language Council] meant is that, with all due respect, the information published on Wikipedia and regularly updated on Wikipedia is not guaranteed by anyone, its correctness and reliability is not guaranteed, - Dmitry Peskov explained.

He also drew attention to the fact that "the president was just saying that it was necessary to make available a source of encyclopedic knowledge guaranteed from the point of view of reliability."

And this is the "Big Russian Encyclopedia," - noted Dmitry Peskov.

According to him, there are no prohibitions and obstacles to access to Wikipedia and there can be no talk of them. In his opinion, you can make sure of this again by re-reading the transcript of the meeting of the Council on the Russian language on the Kremlin website.

Putin's proposal to replace Wikipedia with the Big Russian Encyclopedia

The President Russia Vladimir Putin made a proposal to replace the electronic encyclopedia "" in Wikipedia Russia with the "Big Russian Encyclopedia" (BDE). He stated this in November 2019 at a meeting of the Russian Language Council^[7]

Vladimir Putin questioned the reliability of the information posted on Wikipedia, which has existed since 2001 and as of November 2019 is among the top 10 most popular Internet resources in the world in terms of the number of visits (Alexa rating).

It is better to replace it (Wikipedia) with a large Russian new encyclopedia in electronic form. This will be, in any case, reliable information, in good modern form proposed, - said Vladimir Putin.

Determination of the tender winner for the portal editorial system development

The publishing house "Big Russian Encyclopedia" has determined the winner of the tender for the development of the editorial system of the portal "Big Russian Encyclopedia." According to the results of the competition, announced on August 26, 2019, it was the Digital Banking Technologies company.

The amount of the contract concluded with the company is 132.6 million rubles, which is less than its original cost, 132.9 million rubles, by 300 thousand rubles. The term of the contract is September 10-December 25, 2019.

According to the terms of reference, the company had to perform the following works:

• survey of business needs of the company "Big Russian Encyclopedia";

• analysis of its business processes;

• writing private technical assignments for the development of the information system "Editorial complex" Big Russian Encyclopedia ";

• design of architecture of this system;

• creation of its user interfaces;

• development of this system consisting of functional subsystems such as "Basic," "Content," "Processes," "Search," "Analytical characteristics," "Media platform."

As the executive editor of the publishing house Sergey Kravets explained to TAdviser, the information system "Editorial complex" Big Russian Encyclopedia "is one of the components of the future portal of the encyclopedia.

In addition to the winner of the tender, the company "Applana Development Center" took part in the competition. The price offered to her, 131.9 million rubles, was 700 thousand rubles less than the price of the winner of the competition.

Tender for Portal Editorial System Development

On July 10, 2019, the scientific publishing house "Big Russian Encyclopedia" (BRE) announced a competition for the development of an editorial system as part of a project to create a nationwide interactive encyclopedic portal. The cost of the work was estimated at 132.9 million rubles^[8].

Publishing house "Big Russian Encyclopedia" will create an interactive encyclopedic portal

The BRE Editorial Complex system was supposed to support the company's business processes: creating and correcting an encyclopedia article, correcting media content, publishing an article on the portal, planning work, tracking work facts, etc. The authorized page of each user was supposed to display the tools corresponding to his profile. For example, for an artist they are tools for working with graphics, for an editor they are tools for working with text.

Applications developed within the framework of the project were supposed to use only Open Source solutions and libraries. The requirements for the server operating system used were as follows: Unix family, Open Source, support for virtualization and process isolation systems, support for basic network protocols, and a logged file system. The visual interface should be focused on working in the web (support for HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript). When choosing hardware, the priority should be technical solutions of domestic production that meet the requirements for import substitution.

The system was to be created by December 25, 2019. It is assumed that it will increase the efficiency of the editorial process for preparing publishing materials.

2018: The government approved the concept of the portal "Big Russian Encyclopedia"

In December 2018, the Russian government approved the concept of the portal "Big Russian Encyclopedia," the development of which the publishing house of the same name began in the spring of 2016. It was first presented to the government in June 2016. This was announced to TAdviser by the responsible editor of the publishing house Sergey Kravets. As noted in the concept, the potential audience of the portal in Russia, according to an approximate estimate, may be, taking into account high school students and self-education workers, about 10 million people.

After the creation of the working group, the concept of the portal was repeatedly discussed and supplemented. In general, it was approved at its meeting in May 2017 with the need for revision. Further, during 2017-2018, the concept was finalized by specialists from the Big Russian Encyclopedia together with members of the working group, "Sergei Kravets told TAdviser.

TAdviser got acquainted with the concept of the portal "Big Russian Encyclopedia."

Concept Principles

The portal concept is based on the following principles:

• reliability of information and its compliance with the current level of scientific knowledge (relevance);
• joint responsibility of the author and the scientific edition for the accuracy and completeness of the information.
• linguistic conformity of information submission to the norms of the modern Russian literary language;
• active use of the entire spectrum of information formats (text, audio, video, computer graphics, etc.);
• aggregation of information from external sources (portal partners) in order to enable the user to access the widest possible range of reliable sources.
• information systematics to help the user navigate the information field.
• availability of an interconnected complex of different search engines providing support for user requests.
• the interactivity of the cognition process;
• availability of a "communication platform" for experts and authors to combine efforts (discussion, review, introduction of new materials, etc.) in search of new sources, formation and systematization of knowledge.
• the possibility of requests from a wide range of users with proposals, additions and clarifications of portal materials.
• reliability of functioning and protection from external influences;
• ease of use, attractiveness for the user, including convenient personalization of information;
• the ability to use on all popular hardware, including mobile devices.

Essence and objectives

According to the document, the portal will be a constantly updated information resource based on the electronic version of the 35-volume "Big Russian Encyclopedia" (2004-2017) and other scientifically verified sources of knowledge. The site will be intended for a wide range of users and consolidate reliable and up-to-date information about the development and state of the world and society. Its adapted resources, according to the document, will be gradually incorporated into the practice of schooling.

The creation of a nationwide scientific and educational encyclopedic interactive portal seems to be an adequate response to the information challenges of modern society, the concept says.

The tasks of the resource, according to the document, are:

• building a system of interaction between competent sources of information based on the systematics of modern scientific and encyclopedic knowledge;
• creating an open and accessible "territory" of reliable and up-to-date knowledge certified by the scientific community.

Another important function is the aggregation of existing electronic resources containing reliable information, as well as information available on the websites of its partners - scientific organizations, cultural institutions, government departments and other structures. At the same time, according to the concept, central state encyclopedic organizations (publishers, institutes) of countries such as Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus Georgia and Moldova are also ready to take part in the creation and development of the portal. In addition, interest in participation is shown by,, China, India Brazil Cuba and. Iran

At the same time, it is stated in the document, the availability of the site for a Russian-speaking user, primarily citizens of the Russian Federation, is an indispensable condition of his activities.

Portal structure

From the point of view of functionality, the following areas are delimited within the portal:

• An area of ​ ​ knowledge (Terra science), which includes information in all areas of knowledge and combined into specific information slots, a support system (search engines, stable semantic links, etc.). This area is fully controlled by the scientific editions of the portal.
• Research area (Terra inventa), which is a communicative platform for professional scientific discussion - review, addition, updates - specific slots and topics, accessible to experts and authors and moderated by scientific editions of the portal.
• An area of ​ ​ the initiative (Terra initia), which provides the possibility of encouraged initiative additions, updates and refinements of information. By the decision of the experts, information from this area may become the subject of discussion and subsequently, if confirmed (verified), is posted on the portal signed by the author.

Content

The content will be based on an array of articles - more than 80 thousand - of the electronic version of the 35-volume "Big Russian Encyclopedia" (2004-2017), as well as reference materials of the "Encyclopedic Dictionary" (2011). Also on the portal will be presented materials from other domestic and foreign encyclopedias. Namely - "the portal recognized by the expert community as meaningful, reliable and consistent with the modern level of knowledge." The resource will also contain materials from information partners.

New encyclopedic concepts - terms, geographical names, events, persons, etc. - will be able to introduce a wide range of users to the site. Among them are representatives of the scientific editions of the portal and the expert community, partners of the resource, as well as ordinary users offering a new concept.

Support for the proposal to introduce a new encyclopedic concept from the user community can be carried out through voting on the portal, in a special section of Terra initia). The final decision on the inclusion of a new concept is made by scientific editions after its verification by the expert community, the concept says.

A service for checking content for plagiarism will be integrated into the editorial system of the resource.

Portal Community

The expert and author's communities of the portal are initially formed on the basis of the author's team of the "Big Russian Encyclopedia," partner encyclopedias and are expanded by attracting new authors and experts from among the leading specialists in the selection of editors, scientific curators, recommendations of colleagues, etc.

A registered user who actively offers the scientific edition competent additions and clarifications of the information posted on the resource, as well as justifications for including new concepts in his dictionary, can be invited to the expert or author's community of the site.

Process Requirements, Software

As architectural requirements for the resource, the concept notes:

• Scalability and extensibility;
• Portability and modularity;
• Reliability;
• Safety;

Site architecture shall ensure fulfillment of the following requirements:

1. Serving at least 15 million unique visitors/50 million sessions/250 million page impressions per day;

2. Maintenance of at least 50 thousand simultaneous views of multimedia materials;

3. Maintenance of at least 1 million simultaneous permanent long-lived connections ("long polling") for content translation to client applications;

4. Sending at least 10 million messages per day by e-mail;

5. Maximum time for generation of dynamically created pages (excluding time for information delivery) - not more than one second;

6. Maximum time of static pages generation (excluding time for information delivery) - not more than one tenth of a second;

7. Minimum speed of information delivery to the visitor is at least 2 Mbit/s (for visitors with comparable or higher access speed);

8. Portal fault tolerance level is not less than 99.99% during the reporting period.

The architecture of the portal should ensure the fulfillment of these requirements in normal and emergency modes. In the latter case, the functionality and/or volume of information provided to visitors may be reduced.

As functional requirements for the resource, the concept notes:

• Storing and processing large amounts of data
• well-structured data;
• The possibility of different data structures
• a large number of relationships between data;
• Working with different types of data
• Working with external data sources
• using metadata and ontologies;
• interaction with a large number of users;
• Support for different types of users
• availability of a communication component;
• interoperability;
• linguistic support.

According to the concept, the site should be based on the principle of open architecture.

Regarding the portal software (software), the document notes that when creating it, the priority is to use:

• software solutions of a similar orientation, based on similar principles and developed earlier within the framework of informatization measures implemented by state bodies and their subordinate institutions, including standard software solutions placed in the national fund of algorithms and programs for electronic computers, taking into account the technical possibility of using these solutions;
• software, information about which is included in the unified register of Russian programs for electronic computers and databases, as well as having open source code as system-wide software.

The design of the resource software should take into account possible attack vectors aimed at extracting personal data of users and replacing the contents of the resource pages. Various possible types of software attacks, in particular code injections and cross-site scripting, should also be taken into account.

Stages of creation

The work plan for the creation of the site provides for a preliminary stage of pre-project preparation and several stages of work on the development of a resource with a total duration of 33 months with a start in October 2019.

In 2019-2020, an expert community of the portal should be formed and a system of intra-editorial document management should be developed. It includes:

• a thematic section consisting of several types of thematic articles: reference, dictionary, basic article, materials for specialists from industry publications;
• seven types of services: plots, micro-concepts, chronotopes, "from quote to source," "prerequisites and consequences," "comparisons by standard indicators," "generalizing slot";
• partner content;
• media content of all formats;
• cartographic material;
• bibliography with reference to an electronic edition in the event of a legal copy

The following is also planned for 2020:

• creating thematic vocabulary and filling it with encyclopedic concepts;
• creation of new slots in scientific editions;
• development of an adapted school version of an encyclopedia on astronomy and history;
• training of employees to work in the system;
• creating a multilingual editor for working with articles in the system, in particular, supporting the language of notes;
• creating a prototype of the portal "Big Russian Encyclopedia" for the user.

In 2021, the creation of the content of the resource should be continued, its document management system with all components and databases (directories) was launched, the security of the site was resolved, and its public part was developed. In particular, its user interface was created taking into account access to the public part of the expert community and a system of interactive interaction with the user was developed.

In 2022, the portal was to be put into public space in test mode, then its errors should be eliminated and adjusted, and then it is planned to launch it in working mode.

Financing plan in the amount of 1.98 billion rubles for two years

The total costs of the portal "Big Russian Encyclopedia" for 2019-2022. will amount to 1.989 billion rubles.

According to the amendments to the budget for 2019 and the planning period 2020-2021, in 2019 the state subsidy to the Big Russian Encyclopedia publishing house for the creation and operation of the portal amounted to 302.2 million rubles.

The publisher spent this subsidy mainly on:

• development of an editorial resource system;
• acquisition of fixed assets intended for creation and operation of the site, including computer hardware, telecommunication and server equipment,
• purchase and installation of personal computers;
• purchase, installation, technical support, updating and integrated maintenance of system and application licensed software and information and reference systems;
• acquisition of information protection tools;
• installation of telecommunications and computer network, including fiber-optic communication lines, replacement and expansion of electrical networks;
• remuneration of employees of scientific editions, staff of the main editorial office and executive directorate, payment of remuneration to authors for the creation of portal content;
• economic expenses for the maintenance and maintenance of occupied premises, payment of utility costs, communication services, security and observance of the fire safety regime of facilities.

In 2020, the subsidy of the ANO "Big Russian Encyclopedia" for the creation and functioning of the resource, as follows from the draft federal budget for 2020 and the planning period 2021-2022, will amount to 684.5 million rubles. The organization will mainly spend this subsidy on:

• continued development of the site software; (it is planned to put into commercial operation the previously developed functional subsystems of the portal);
• continuation of the acquisition of application licensed software and information and reference systems, computer equipment in connection with the planned increase in the number of employees,
• expenses for maintenance and maintenance of occupied premises, including payment of utility costs, communication services, security and compliance with the fire safety regime of facilities;
• remuneration of employees;
• payment under contracts with the world's leading encyclopedic publications for access to scientific information;
• The expense of paying authors to create content for the resource.

In 2021, ANO "Big Russian Encyclopedia" will receive a subsidy of 833.5 million rubles for the creation of the site, in 2022 - 169.1 million rubles.

At the end of August 2019, the Russian government approved the rules for granting subsidies to the Big Russian Encyclopedia publishing house for the creation and operation of the portal. The corresponding decree was developed by the Ministry of Communications.

According to the document, the organization can send subsidies, including for the remuneration of publishing house employees, rental, development and purchase of software, purchase of equipment (personal computers, servers, etc.), provision of employee jobs (including special workplaces for the production of content and software product), etc.

At the same time, the resolution establishes to the organization the values ​ ​ of the results of the subsidy: the number of terms entered into the resource database, the number of tags created in industry dictionaries, the number of functional subsystems of the site.

2017: Request for support from President Putin

On December 20, 2017, Yuri Osipov, chairman of the scientific and editorial council for the publication of the Big Russian Encyclopedia, presented Russia Vladimir Putin ^[9] of^[10] Encyclopedia to Putin in the Kremlin^[11]

Thus, your instructions have been fully fulfilled and Russia has a unique scientific encyclopedia, - Yury Osipov drew the attention of the president.

According to him, several hundred authors were involved in the work, in the volumes of the encyclopedia - more than 80 thousand articles. The knowledge presented in the encyclopedia is universal. It covers the world and all the phenomena in it.

Not every state on the shoulder in the state language to create such an encyclopedia. Having created such an encyclopedia, we still took our rightful place in the elite club of unique, universal encyclopedias, - said Yuri Osipov.

According to him, the other two are created in the UK and the joint work of German and Swedish scientists.

The results of the work show that everyone has great intellectual potential, - said Yuri Osipov.

The full electronic version of the "Big Russian Encyclopedia" has also already been created, said Sergey Kravets, executive editor of the encyclopedia publishing house. In the process of development, according to him, the general national encyclopedic portal, the future contains articles from the "Big Russian Encyclopedia," industry encyclopedias, as well as reliable information from museums, institutes and universities.

In this regard, Kravets asked the head of state to facilitate this work: during the meeting, a letter was sent to the president with relevant proposals.

We will help, - said Vladimir Putin.

2016: Forming a Portal Creation Working Group

On August 25, 2016, the Russian government formed an interdepartmental working group on issues related to the creation of an electronic version of the Big Russian Encyclopedia and other Russian scientific encyclopedias of a national scientific and educational interactive encyclopedic portal. The corresponding order was posted on the portal of regulatory legal acts.

The document also approved the composition of the newly formed working group. It included 21 people. Among them are the ex-head of the government apparatus Sergei Prikhodko, who headed the group, deputy head of the Ministry of Communications and Mass Media Alexei Volin, ex-deputy minister of culture Vladimir Aristarkhov, ex-general director of the Russian National Library Alexander Visly.

Speaking with CNews about the creation of the portal "Big Russian Encyclopedia," the ex-head of the Russian National Library (RNB) Alexander Visly noted that the resource will become "not an analogue, but a competitor to Wikipedia" ^[12].

According to him, the site will become an electronic analogue of the Big Russian Encyclopedia (BRE), the formation of a paper version of which has not yet been completed. The project, in his opinion, is not easy, since it has a direct competitor in the person of Wikipedia.

Go and prove that the authors of electronic BDE have more competence than the authors of Wikipedia, "said Alexander Visly.

According to him, with the creation of the resource, readers will have an alternative to Wikipedia.

They will decide for themselves who they are more likely to believe. The task of making a competitive product is very difficult, a working group is going to solve it, Alexander Visly noted.

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