PERIODIC PRINTING AND MARY LITERATURE OF THE FIRST HALF OF THE XX CENTURY

The article is devoted to a little-studied problem in Mari literary studies: the development of Mari literature on the pages of periodicals in the first half of the 20 century. Mari literature develops in two literary languages: hill Mari and meadow Mari, so publications in these languages are considered separately. Attention is given to the Yearbook "Marla calendar", the newspaper "" ("War news"), magazines "" ("New force"), "" ("The new melody"), "" ("Red banner"), the anthologies "" ("Happy life"), "" ("For the Motherland"), "" ("Mari almanac"), "" ("For the Motherland"), "" ("Blooming country"), "." ("Happy life"), "25." ("25 years"), "" ("Victory road"), "" ("Early dawn"). Published works are considered in genre terms. The author's attention was drawn to the literary-critical works of Nikolai Ignatyev, in which the writer tries to solve the problems of the development of hill Mari literature. This issue is being studied for the first time. In general, an attempt is made to show digital data on the materials of the periodical press and to some extent indicate the explicit or indirect reasons for the publication of a particular publication.