Literature and publishing of the Volga region nations: cooperation and development

This article presents generalization of the influence of regional press upon the literature. It analyses newspaper publications in which actual aspects of ideological-aesthetic and artistic development of present-day literary traditions and process of the peoples inhabiting the Povolzhsky region - mordva, tatar, chuvash - are treated. Having analyzed mass media issues the author proves that at our difficult time the word of art finds response in human souls.