Electronic encyclopedias are intended both for mass, and for the professional consultation using knowledge in them. The special place of encyclopedias among text-through electronic libraries is connected with an opportunity of construction the searching systems that provides answers reception on intellectual inquiries of the information consumers. The special approach to the organization of documents storage as knowledge bases, makes possible application of electronic encyclopedias for the automatic users problems decision, with the help of knowledge processing procedures. Works on creation the universal system VEDA for construction the electronic document storehouses and mechanisms of their processing are conducted in the Internet center of the Kuban University.