The Reflection of the Trebizond Operation of the Caucasian Army (1916) on the Pages of the Newspaper “Soldatskii Vestnik”

The work examines the Trebizond operation on January 23 -April 5, 1916 on the pages of the military newspaper "Soldatskii Vestnik".The files of the military newspaper "Soldatskii Vestnik" for the period of the Trebizond operation were used as a source base.The first publication dates back to February 17, 1916, and the last to April 16 of the same year.The research methodology is presented by the chronological method, the method of content analysis, as well as the method of scientific induction.The authors came to the following conclusions:1.The first episodic mention of the new Trebizond direction of the Caucasian Front on the pages of the "Soldatskii Vestnik" began only on February 17, 1916, that is, more than three weeks after the start of this operation on January 23.This is partly due to the presence of the Erzurum area, which is more promising for war correspondents, where the military operation at that time was close to a successful conclusion.2. Most of the materials in the newspaper devoted to the Trebizond operation were presented by reports from the headquarters of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief with few exceptions, when additions were required from the editorial office or there was other material that could be used as propaganda (for example, a reprint from the Austrian newspaper "Zeit").3. Due to the fact that the Turkish city of Trebizond was captured by Russian troops without a fight, the newspaper paid minimal attention to the circumstances of the capture of the city.The reasons for this, among other things, were that Russian troops at the beginning of April 1916 actively developed an offensive in the Erzincan direction, as well as the fact that the newspaper was not published in the period from April 7 to April 14, 1916.As a result, the success at Trebizond was practically not represented on the pages of the "Soldatskii Vestnik".