THE HISTORY OF THE NEWSPAPER PRINTING IN KALMYKIA: PERIODS OF TIME AND FEATURES OF STUDY
The article describes the degree of scientific development of the issues of studying the history of the periodical press of Kalmykia and highlights its main stages of historiography. The author analyses Russian and Kalmyk literature concerning the topic of investigation.lt is believed that the study of the history of the press, the disclosure of the content of newspapers and journals of past years provide incrediblebasis for a more detailed study not only of the time when they were published, but also of the history of the people in general, and in particular of education, culture, literature and lifestyle. It should be noted that there is a shortage of investigations concerning newspapers and journals in national regionsin general. There have been no studies on the development of book publishing, periodical press and printing in the Kalmyk republic until recently. The first works dealing with the history of the press are small pamphlets written by activists of the Kalmyk press in the 1930s.