Representation of the Urals Space in Guidebooks at the End of the XIX — Early XX Century

The article studies the presentation of the Urals space in Guidebooks published in the end 19th — early 20th centuries. The publication of the guidebooks is recognized by the author as an important milestone not only in the development of tourism, but also in the formation of the cultural geography of the region. They allow us to present the process of producing knowledge about the Urals from a special point of view and clarify the changing approaches to describing the territory of the region. An analysis of guidebooks to the Urals showed the absence in their texts of clear principles for dividing the Ural macro-region, and the region itself was presented discretely and incompletely in them. The increase in the number and species diversity of tourist attractions in guidebooks compensated for this deficiency. It was they who made it possible to form an impressive and multifaceted geocultural image of the Urals.