Казахстан и Средняя Азия в Сибирско-Дальневосточных изданиях конца XVIII - XIX вв.: предварительные данные

The purpose of the article is to form an idea of the publication of publications concerning the nature, economy, history of Kazakhstan and Central Asia, published in Siberia and the Far East before the beginning of the 20th century. The work provides statistical information on the publication of literature by year in the cities of the region, provides a typology of works, presents a variety of topics of books and articles, their structure and the content of a number of publications. The source base was data from volume 1 of the «Consolidated catalogue of Siberian and Far Eastern books» (Novosibirsk, 2004). Bibliographic, statistical, analytical-thematic, historical-retrospective research methods were used in preparing the article. The edition of such literature was due to the interest in the development of these regions in economic, cultural and scientific terms. Generalized data on statistics and topics are presented for the first time. The results of the statistical analysis show that Omsk was the leader in publishing such literature.