摘要：The article features the periodical press issues as a source base of research of the history of professional education in the second part of XIX–beginning of XX centuries. It also features the development of pedagogical journalism of this period and reveals the methodology of work with periodicals. The study provides a general review of the most important printed media outlets, which have a lot of pages dedicated to the issues of vocational schools. The article reveals specific techniques of Governorate Press as an important source in the study of historic-cultural processes on the regional level. Through the prism of periodicals, the problem zones in the development of educational system in the Russian provinces can be traced.
