Communication routes around the Urals in guidebooks of the early 20th century

The article studies the structure and information potential of Guidebooks about the railways and rivers of the Urals. A feature of publications of this format was a clear structure of presentation of information: from station to station, from pier to pier in the direction of the route. In many of them, the section on the Urals was not the most significant: The region connected European Russia with Siberia and Central Asia and was a transit region. The combination of water and railway communications in the text of the tourist guide, on the contrary, increased the coverage of the territory of the region. The growth and ramification of the railway network increased the density of transport infrastructure. The reflection of these changes in the text of the guidebooks (taking into account navigation on the Kama and Belaya) brought them closer to the all-Ural tourist guides.