Revisiting the Pedagogical Periodical Press in the Vilna Educational District (1862-1915)

This work examined the pedagogical periodical press in the Vilna Educational District in the period 1862-1915. The study’s source base incorporated narrowly specialized reference and encyclopedic works on the history of the Russian periodical press. In terms of methodology, use was made of content analysis to isolate a selection of periodicals published in 1862-1915 in the Vilna Educational District. The study’s findings revealed that there were five academic pedagogical periodicals published in the Vilna Educational District between 1862 and 1915. These journals were geographically distributed as follows: three published in Vilno, one - in Mogilev on the Dnieper, and one - in Grodno. Among them, the periodicals that were in operation for a relatively long time were Tsirkulyar po Vilenskomu Uchebnomu Okrugu and Narodnoye Obrazovaniye v Vilenskom Uchebnom Okruge , with both sustained through government funding and being in operation in Vilno up until the city was evacuated during World War I. Among the rest of the journals, of particular note is the periodical Pedagogicheskiye Zapiski , which was a supplement to the children’s magazine Zor’ka - 18 issues of this journal were produced between 1905 and 1908. The remaining two publications, Belorussky Uchitel’sky Vestnik (published in Mogilev on the Dnieper) and Pedagogicheskoye Delo (Grodno), existed for relatively short periods of time, with fewer than 10 issues of each produced.