Merchant Tyumen during the First World War: based on the Materials of the Time Edition "Siberian Trade Newspaper"

The author of the article refers to the consideration of a little-studied topic on the appearance of merchant Tyumen in the pages of the time-based edition "Siberian Trade Newspaper" during the First World War. The article analyzes the content of newspaper headings and the change of topical priorities dictated by wartime conditions, the peculiarity of editorial policy and numbering in the context of military censorship and "paper starvation." Based on the material studied, the author comes to the following conclusions. Providing the readers with a wide information panorama of front-line news and international events, Sibirskaya Torgovaya Gazeta has accumulated in its pages the main directions of life in the rear Siberian city: problems with the deployment of thousands of prisoners of war, raising prices for essential products, charitable activities in favor of families of lower ranks, behavior of Tyumentians with the onset of hunger and increasing crime. Of the three newspaper publications in Tyumen that met the First World War -"Bulletin of Western Siberia", "Ermak" and "Siberian Trade Newspaper"-only the latter managed to adapt to the conditions of the economic crisis and revolutionary upheavals, releasing numbers before the beginning of 1918, when the Bolsheviks closed all the time-based editions of pre-revolutionary Russia.