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Modern publishing practice in Russia demonstrates a previously unknown phenomenon, which is rapid development of publishing activities in mid-sized cities and towns, even in rural settlements outside the regional administrative centers, especially since the 2010s. This process is noticeable in Siberia and the Far East. Local centers create their own publishing houses and issue books. The author identifies five options of developing book publishing in Russia’s eastern regions, and five models to distribute publishing forces between the main city and other settlements in the region, accordingly. The first model is typical of industrially developed regions with a large concentration of publishing resources in the main city (Novosibirsk, Omsk Areas). Here, the peripheral publishing network is weak due to its low demand. The second model prevails in the majority of national republics in the Asian part of the country, and so-called depressed Far Eastern regions (Amur and Magadan Oblasts, Transbaikalian and Kamchatka Krais). Simply, these regions lack both material and intellectual resources for publishing in local settlements. The third model of the peripheral publishing network development is represented by a number of regions, where besides the regional “capital’s” publishing power, there are quite strong publishing complexes in another city of the region (Kemerovo Area, Krasnoyarsk and Khabarovsk Territories). The fourth model, that appeared in the Tomsk, Irkutsk Areas, Primorsk and Altai Territories should be considered as the most harmonious one. It provides an even distribution of publishing enterprises, corresponding to the needs, across all settlements in the region. The fifth model is implemented in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug - Yugra, where the capital regional city has a poor publishing potential, and the main part of printed products is produced by two other cities, which are the Ob North oil “capitals”. Forming a cluster of book publishing enterprises in small settlements of the modern province fully corresponds to the prospect of Russia’s development along the democratic path, building the civil society foundations.