Peculiarities of problematics of Russian church historiography in western Siberia in the 2<sup>nd</sup> half of the 19<sup>th</sup> and at the beginning of the 20<sup>th</sup> century
The article is devoted to the analysis and comparison of the topics and problems being investigated by western-Siberian historians of the Russian Orthodox Church in the 2<sup>nd</sup> half of the 19<sup>th</sup> and at the beginning of the 20<sup>th</sup> century. Peculiarities of regional specific character of church historical writing are defined.