Due to the lack of comprehensive research, this article presents an analysis of children’s departments in libraries in Siberia and the Far East in the pre-revolutionary period. The number of names and volumes of books in children’s departments in libraries in the region at the end of 19th — the beginning of the 20th century and the place of children’s departments among others of these indicators is for the first time counted and submitted in absolute and relative measures. In the children’s departments of some libraries, literature was divided by the age of child readers, by its content and genres of fiction. Authors and publishing houses which books completed children’s departments are revealed. It is shown that among them there was not only art, but also popular scientific literature on various fields of knowledge.
Yu. V. Timofeeva (Fri,) studied this question.