Youth reading practices in Tomsk (late 19th - early 20th centuries)

In the article reader practices of Tomsk youth of the late 19th - early 20th centuries, which is the most active group of the mass readership that is forming in this period, are considered. The opening of educational institutions and libraries led to the formation of the students' reading subculture with its inherent needs and reader interests. Productive forms of reader self-organisation in the youth environment were illegal libraries in student associations, the publication of their own newspapers and magazines. The formation of a new paradigm of mass literature at the turn of the century determined the reader's interest in fiction that aims to entertain and, to a certain extent, contributes to the formation of a stable habit of reading among young readers. The study of the reader practices of this period also indicates the growing interest of the youth audience in a serious, good book, scientific and artistic, a book with a "world-building function" in developing civic consciousness and constructing an image of the world for its readers.

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