history of journalism

The article presents the history of the birth and formation of the Russian student periodicals. The author considers the first manifestations of the life of the student press of Russia in the unofficial "samizdat" periodicals published in educational institutions; in wall newspapers approved by the administration of higher, secondary and secondary specialized educational institutions; in high school periodicals; in the socio-political press that pays attention to student topics.

The article defines system features of a special type of periodical that emerged in the early XXth century – a journal-manifesto. The typological assessment of the first representative of this type of media – of the journal Mir Iskusstva (World of Art) – is made.