The article examines unofficial printed publications that were first identified in the collections of the State Archive of the Magadan Region, the Magadan Museum of Local History and the Magadan Regional Universal Scientific Library named after A. S. Pushkin. The purpose of the work is to reveal the subject of alternative printing in the designated region, the circulation, authors, and the period of publication. The article attempts to classify unofficial, amateur, low-circulation publications of the Magadan region that are not associated with the official (state) press. The work focuses on printed publications of the second half of the 20th century. A number of the presented publications are introduced into scientific circulation for the first time. Using the examples of alternative printing, the interrelation of information published in these sources (magazine and newspaper articles, literary and artistic materials, etc.) with regional local history, local history and the history of everyday life is traced. Based on the unofficial printed sources identified and introduced into scientific circulation for the first time, the article highlights the preconditions for the formation of print activity in Kolyma, examines the division of publications by genre and thematic characteristics. Examples of literary and artistic publications such as “Molotok”, “Siyanie”, “Prikol LISt” are given. For the first time, the socio-political newspapers “Polyus lyutosti”, “Antikommunist”, “Nabat”, “Pravo na zashchitu”, the military-patriotic almanac “Podvig”, the sports newspapers “Ajsberg”, and “Boks” are introduced into scientific circulation, as well as samples of children's, youth and school press “Magadashka”, “Al'ternativa”, “Pokolenie”. The circulation of publications and the composition of editorial teams are indicated. The role of the unofficial printed materials and samizdat in the regional socio-political, cultural and educational processes of the late 1980s and early 2000s is revealed. The period of the late 1980s is taken by us as a stage of state transformation, “perestroika”, and the eve of the abolition of censorship in the media. The period of the early 2000s was due to the availability of smallprint media and the growing popularity of alternative print media. The article establishes the interrelationships between alternative publications in the sociocultural space of the Magadan region. Examples of modifications of certain unofficial publications such as the almanac “Podvig” are given.
