The Soviet Historical Encyclopedia is the Soviet encyclopedia of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union (1961–1976) on the history of peoples of the whole world until the 70s of the 20th century. Includes articles-terms on the history of the Soviet Union and foreign countries, to the mid 70's. Many articles are given detailed chronologies, which are integral parts of articles devoted to the Soviet Union, Union republics and foreign countries. Articles are accompanied by statistical tables, maps (historical, political, ethnographic), diagrams, illustrations.

At head of title: Nauchnyĭ sovet izdatelʹstva "Sovetskai︠a︡ ėnt︠s︡iklopedii︠a︡". Otdelenie istoricheskikh nauk. Akademii︠a︡ nauk SSSR.