From history of the Tomsk Provincial Bulletin

The article is devoted to the history of the origin of Tomsk Provincial Bulletin in 1854-57 and its legal ground, material and technical base for publishing and its staff. The author explains the arising periodicals in Siberia with the thaw of Alexander II times, the processes оf modernization, intensified in Russia from the second half of 1850s. In conditions of modernization, interest of authorities in the reinforcement of its position, in the efficiency of managerial system, in broad and exact notification of its decisions, in regularizing office work, in carrying out of legal principles was raised. These problems could be solved through an official printed organ Provincial Bulletin. Long absence of official newspapers in Siberia can be explained by objective causes (small population, insufficient development of economic relationship, low educational level, small number of Siberian intelligentsia, insufficiency of local administrations in facilities, finally, bad conditions for typography) and by subjective ones (authorities' concept of the Russian socio-cultural province as a semicolonial territory, which was on a special administrative-legal position, approaching European Russia standards with certain delay). Change of supreme state power has led to logical spreading of a governmental project on the publishing of newspapers in Siberian provinces. The Siberian Provincial Bulletin, in its project, structure and contents were editions of the Russian Provincial Bulletin, which had some trends to democratization by the end of the reign of Nicolas I. Gubernatorial power in Siberia also realised a need of publishing newspapers because of their social-economic and public value and the need to perfect the state of things in province. In the article an important place is devoted to regional processes of development of Siberian public and cultural life.

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