Qualities of Russina literary journals

This article focuses on the unique type of publication, which had a huge impact on the formation and development of Russian readers. Literary magazines in Russia started to be issued from mid-19th century. Since then they have occupied a special place among the various periodicals. So-called "thick journals" played an important social and cultural role in different periods of Russian and Soviet history. The article deals with the specifics of "thick journals" as a special type of periodicals, tells about the major milestones in the history of this type of publication in Russia. The author proposes a new method of studying a language of Russian literary journals as a discourse.