Russian and English vocabulary

[Yurij Lotoshko]

Liter. vocabularies  about 170 000 (Slovar' russkogo jazyka v 17 tomax)
modern (with terms) about 1 000 000
Slovar' velikorysskogo jazyka (V.Dal')  about 230 000

Slovar proizvedenij A.S.Pushkina about 40 000 words
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> oT: Kamneva, Natalia <nyuka at Claritech.com>
> kOMU: SEELANGS at CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU
> tEMA: Russian and English vocabulary
> dATA: 14 FEWRALQ 1998 G. 2:14
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> Could anybody  help me to figure out how big are vocabularies
> of English and Russian languages?
>
> Thank you very much.
>
> Natalia Kamneva