Podolyaka N. Formation and development of Sumy region publishing business (1861 - 1917): centers, repertoire, distribution.

Complex investigation of the development of Sumy region publishing business features has been for the first time in homeland science actualized in dissertation during the period of 1861 - 1917. There were found more than 40 printing companies that had been practicing publishing in the region, there were given some technological characteristics of the biggest ones. In dissertation the book production was typologically classified. The main criteria, was the intended and the reading purposes. During the investigation there was published a catalog of nonperiodic and ongoing publications of the years 1861 - 1917, produced by the printing houses within the territory of modern Sumy region museums. There were more than 400 discovered units included into the catalog. There was determined a contribution of Sumy region publishers into general Ukrainian printing process. The main principles of distributing published issues were analyzed.