Until now, the only work on the Soviet periodical press in Chinese remains an article by L. I. Chuguevsky, published on the pages of the journal "Problems of Oriental Studies" more than forty years ago .1 In various collections, as well as according to historical sources, L. I. Chuguevsky managed to identify 22 newspapers, of which only one was published before the revolution as an organ of the Vladivostok Chamber of Commerce. (L. I. Chuguevsky, although at that time he was an employee of the Leningrad branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the USSR Academy of Sciences, where a representative collection of Soviet newspapers in Chinese is kept, did not use its materials in his article). Newspapers in Eastern languages came to the Asian Museum and Institute of Asian Peoples from different countries of the East and the outskirts of the Union as a mandatory copy. Some newspapers were immediately bound and catalogued, while others, for one reason or another, were found not to correspond to the profile of an institution engaged in classical Oriental studies, and were formed unencrypted. The Chinese - language Communist and trade union newspapers of the 1920s and 1930s suffered exactly this fate. The first attempt to catalog them was made only in the late 1960s, during the inventory of the Chinese collection of the Institute's library, a working file was created, newspapers were prepared for binding, but for reasons that are not clear now, all this work was not completed. Later, part of the newspaper collection, including those in Chinese, was damaged in a fire in 1988 in the Library of the Academy of Sciences, in the building of which part of the Institute's funds were then located. When, after the fire, Soviet newspapers were selected from the mass of other newspapers, it turned out that some of the issues listed in the file cabinets of the 1960s were missing, but new ones appeared, previously unaccounted for. It became obvious that it was necessary to record the ... Read more