VICTOR POGADAEV. MALAY WORLD (BRUNEI, INDONESIA, MALAYSIA, SINGAPORE): LINGUA-CULTURAL DICTIONARY: ABOUT 9,000 ENTRIES. Moscow: Vostochnaya kniga, 2012. 798 pp. (in Russian)* Since the third edition of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia was published in 1969-1978, more than thirty five years ago, there was no attempt to give a comprehensive outlook of the Malay world in Russian-speaking countries. Victor Pogadaev, a leading scholar from Moscow, who works at the University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur, on his own, carried off a difficult task to write a dictionary of Malaysian, Indonesian, Singaporean and Brunei linguistic and cultural terms. The dictionary contains more than 9 000 entries covering all spheres of rich Malay world cultures. Entries follow in strict alphabetical (Latin) order and a reader can easily find an entry by means of index in Russian. Entries follow Malaysian, or Indonesian, or Singaporean, or Brunei spelling, for example Mahkamah Rayuan Malaysia 'Malaysian Court of Appeal' (p. 369), Syarikat Hindua Timur Inggeris "The British East India Company" (p. 643), a Singaporean Buddha Tooth Relic Temple (p. 127), and Negara Brunei Darussalam 'the Nation of Brunei, the Abode of Peace' (p. 437). There are entries on * Погадасв В.A. Малайский мир (Ьруней, Индонезия, Малайзия, Сингапур). Лингвострановедческий словарь. Свыше 9 000 словарных статей. Dunia Mclayu (Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapura): Kamus Lingua-Budaya. Lcbih kurang 9,000 cntri. M.: Восточная книга, 2012. 798 с. ISBN 978-5-7873-0658-3 стр. 184 states, nations, ethnicities, peoples, persons, political parties, ideologies, historical events, religions, gods, musical instruments, place-names, trademarks, buildings, monuments, banks, traditional weapons, dances, clothes, flooding names, linear and ton measures, epic literatures, administrative posts, military commands, courts, prayers, funds, kings, epic heroes, musicians, poets, writers, dancers, sportsmen, scholars, travellers... The dictionary co ... Read more