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Old Believers were persecuted both in the Soviet and Imperial periods. Therefore, traditional distancing of this broad movement’s followers from the authorities has long internal and external reasons. The chapel consent representatives form the most striking and massive group that preserved both the Old Orthodox rite and classical Old Believer attitudes of worldview and practice. Members of this group are mainly settled from the Urals to the Far East, and from Argentina to Alaska. However, the spiritual center of this Old Believer church is located in Yenisei Siberia and presented by a network of remote taiga monasteries. They were brought here from Western Siberia between 1917 and 1940, and made up three skete groups - Verkhovsk (located in Tuva), Bezymyansky and Dubchessky (located in the west and north of Krasnoyarsk Region). Due to the Tuvan People’s Republic entering the Soviet state after the anti-religious struggle peak and against the background of indulgent confessional policy in wartime, the Verkhovsk sketes were not subjected to a total pogrom. This fact allowed N.N. Pokrovsky and other Novosibirsk scientists in the 1960s to make the famous “archaeographic discovery” of Siberia just there. Dubchessky monasteries had a different fate: they were devastated in 1951, which was similar to the pogroms of the skete centers undertaken by the authorities during the Imperial period. This dramatic plot was reflected in both the historical memory, culture of chapel harmony, and external reflections. This research gives the analysis and comparison of different views on this pogrom history. First, this is the perception of the Old Believers themselves embodied in their prose and poetry, visual arts, individual and collective memory. Second, the view of the repressive side including the operation participants, whose letters are at the disposal of scientists. Third, the view of secular writers turned to this story - A.I. Solzhenitsyn and M.S. Perevozchikov. The study concludes with the analysis of stereotypes created by these sources and influencing expert and public opinion.

Nowadays, self-government bodies of the city of Yakutsk remain almost unstudied by historians. This work considers the history of self-government in Yakutsk during the Revolution of 1917. The research objective is to analyze the structure of the city government and the electoral process in Yakutsk in 1917 and reveal the factors that influenced this process in the context of political and socio-economic crises. In addition, the focus is to clarify the composition of Yakutsk city self-government bodies. This scientific novelty of research is that it provides for the first time a holistic view of the election organization and the self-government staff of the city of Yakutsk (the City People’s Duma and City Council) based on the principles of historicism, objectivity, consistency, and comprehensiveness. The retrospective method is used as a research tool, making it possible to highlight cause-and-effect relations and regularities in the historical development of the issue. It was found that the elections to Yakutsk City Duma on 18 May, 1917 resulted in three political groups becoming the dominant force: the Social-Democratic, Social-Revolutionary, and Yakutsk Labour Union of the Federalists (YaLUF). The study revealed that the most stable position was that of the Socialist Revolutionary Party: its representatives were at the head of the Yakutsk Committee of Public Security, City Duma, and City Council and entered into an alliance with the national intelligentsia through YaLUF. The Mensheviks have been found to account for an absolute majority in the local branch of the RSDLP actively collaborating with the Social Revolutionaries. The position of the Bolsheviks proved to be considerably weaker. It is worth noting that after the events of October 1917 in Petrograd, the authorities in Yakutsk remained loyal to the Provisional Government and the Constituent Assembly, which had been overthrown by the Bolsheviks.

The article reveals the informational content of commercial advertisements in the pages of the first private periodicals of Tomsk («Sibirskaya Gazeta» and «Sibirsky Vestnik») as a means of promoting goods and services in the local market. The author solves the following tasks in the publication: to identify the main groups of advertised products; highlight the common and distinctive features in advertising of Tomsk newspapers. Advertising was directly related to sale of products and informed readers about the range of products, current prices, new arrivals, and discounts. According to the publications, non-food products (cultural and household, medical, agricultural equipment, household and luxury items, etc.), grocery, gastronomic, fruits and vegetables, fish and meat, as well as crop products were widely represented in the local market. The service sector (passenger and cargo transportation, insurance, printing, hotel service and photography) was characterized by a gradual increase in the number of ads. Products in the first private periodicals were advertised both by Tomsk, and foreign, metropolitan, and other Siberian entrepreneurs, that stimulated the development of the local market of goods and services. The ads differed in a certain structure (the name of product or service, price, owner’s name, designation and address of the trading establishment, etc.) and design (font, frames, product image). The author concludes that advertising publications are an important historical source on the history of regional entrepreneurship and trade. Based on these materials, it becomes possible to identify systemic changes in the Tomsk society of the late XIX - early XX century, characterize the practical interests of population, reveal the world of commerce and the attitude of public opinion to it, draw up a scheme of trade relations of Tomsk merchants.

The article substantiates the need to apply the structural and functional typology in the urban settlement classification of the Altai, Tuva and Khakassia Republics. This typology is based on highlighting the development degree of the urban functional structure in the region, the territorial content of their functions and their economic and geographical position, it takes into account the history of their origin and size as well. The paper shows influencing deindustrialization on the development of the Sayan-Altai urban settlements, their reprofilization and their functions transformation. These processes are particularly characteristic of the capitals of national republics (Abakan, Gorno-Altaisk and Kyzyl). Throughout the period under study, the monotowns with industrial and economic functions played an important role in the spatial settlement structure of urban settlements in the region due to their number, and negative impact on the entire intraregional urban system. The article considers monotowns with administrative and economic functions as a special type of settlements - such are urban villages in Tuva (Turan, Chadan and Shagonar). During their history, they faced problems of the poor quality of life related to the low level of able-bodied population’s employment, a small city-forming base, low investment attractiveness, insufficient level of developing sphere of the social and consumer service, underdevelopment of recreation areas, limited opportunities for self-realization of the youth. The specific feature of the region, and Siberia as a whole, is a significant role of urban villages in the urban settlement system. The author demonstrates how their role changed during the second half of the XX - early XXI centuries.

The first historical writings on Siberian urban residents in the second half of the XX century date back to 1960s. They were primarily dedicated to the working class. In 1990s, the writings were further broadened in the context of historical demography and urban development in historical perspective. The Institute of History of Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Science became the center to research Siberian towns and cities and their dwellers. S. Bukin, N. Guschin, V. Isaev and V. Isupov are among the most prominent scholars. In 2000s, the historians published a series of monographs, miscellanies and articles of conceptual significance. They introduced the concept of Siberian demographic transition and characterized it by the delayed and fragmentary nature of processes. East Siberian historical demography is less studied. L. Slavina pointed out delayed demographic transition. S. Rafikova argued for accelerated urbanization and young population in Siberian towns and cities. The researchers from the Republics of Khakassia and Tuva prepared a multitude of publications discussing the historical urban demography of the second half of the XX century. V. Kyshpanakova, N. Barantseva, Ye. Tinikova, Z. Anaiban, V. Boiko and Z. Dorzhu should be pointed out among them. The researchers suggested delayed demographic transition among the indigenous peoples of Siberia, urban residents including. They argued for Soviet industrialization of the region and its related urbanization. The analysis allows concluding that historical Siberian urban demography is expanding. Linking theory of modernization and concepts of urban and demographic transitions in historical analysis is an area of great promise and substantial potential. It allows gaining new knowledge about life and characteristics of Siberian urban population during the late Soviet period and noteworthy features of processes of urbanization. At the same time, other methodological approaches have not been implied. The works of foreign authors are poorly used. None of the above-mentioned researches has included either any comparative analysis, or mathematical modeling in their study. Such issues as epidemiological transition, migration, the way of life, departmentalism, mixed-nationality marriages, etc. require further research.

The article highlights the main stages and achievements of the 100-year historical path of the Institute for Mongolian, Buddhist and Tibetan Studies of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The Institute traces its history back to the Buryat-Mongolian Academic Committee (Buruchkom) - the first research institution in the history of the Buryatia, which was founded on July 1, 1922. Today IMBT SB RAS is a unique academic institution in the East of Russia which carries out multidimensional research projects in the field of history and culture of the peoples of Central and East Asia. Specifically, it focuses on a comprehensive study of the problems of Mongolian, Buddhist and Tibetan studies, patterns of socio-economic, political, historical and cultural development of the Mongolianspeaking peoples of Russia and Central Asia. The results aimed at academic development of the Oriental space contribute to developing a positive dialogue between the West and the East, while the Institute itself looks ahead with confidence.

The monograph by E.S. Bushueva is devoted to the architecture peculiarities and origin of the Assumption Church of the Holy assumption Monastery, as well as the fate of people related to its activities. The monograph sources were documents deposited in the State Archives of the Trans-Baikal Region and National Archives of the Republic of Buryatia. The author’s attentive attitude to archival materials, their adequate interpretation made it possible to place the singular in the context of culture, to identify the general and the special. The research results indicate the fallacy of the view on the provincial abandonment of Siberian regions. In their historical period, many of them were outposts on the paths of development and advancement of Russia, modern ideas of architecture and art were embodied there, culturally significant buildings were created. The book, full of historical facts, evidence-based arguments, and the author’s reasoning, has become an important contribution to studying the religious life of Siberia.

The textbook under review is devoted to the history of the most difficult period of post-Soviet Russia - the 1990s. The review notes the relevance of the textbook prepared by the famous Russian historian Professor L.N. Slavina. It’s marked that the tutorial provides an analysis of transformations of all spheres of the socio-political and socio-cultural life of the Russian Federation. The textbook is in demand by historical faculties of Russian universities, as it gives basic answers to the most pressing questions of Russia’s recent history.

The capsule review of the scientific editor for the thematic issue of the Siberian Journal of Forest Science, 2022, number 3 is done, dedicated to silvicultural problems in Siberia.

As a result of an experiment on thinning of different intensity and the application of fertilizers (carbamide, 46 % as the active ingredient) in the young stands of the Krasnoyarsk forest-steppe, formed on former agricultural land, with the initial density 30 thousand trees per ha, data were obtained on the response of cenoses to the complex treatment. Dependences of growth on the age and initial density of plantings, and on the density and dose of fertilizer were built. It is shown that on the plots with the thinning intensity of 77 and 59 % of the number of trees, after 10 years it is necessary to carry out a second thinning treatment. It has been established that the growth response to the application of fertilizers begins from the fifth year after their application. The application of fertilizers makes it possible to reduce the competition between trees for environmental resources, which allows overdense young stands to provide the maximum possible productivity up to a certain age. The results obtained can be used not only in solving forestry problems of increasing the productivity of plantations, but also to increase their carbon sequestration functions.