The first volume of the Literary Encyclopedia of the Russian Diaspora presents articles about the most significant and forgotten writers and critics who emigrated or were expelled from Russia after the Bolshevik coup. Some of them later returned to the USSR and became Soviet writers or, on the contrary, died, were shot. The encyclopedia uses domestic and foreign archives. The initial layout of the Dictionary was made in a limited edition at INION RAS (part 1-3. — 1993-1995).