To study the activities of the Imperial Russian Music Society in the Crimea
The article deals with the situation that developed so far in the study of the emergence and development of the Imperial Russian Musical Society and its departments in the pre-revolutionary period in the Crimea: Yalta (1905), Kerch (1905) and Simferopol (1908). The article proves the urgency of posing the problem due to the lack of special studies of the Crimean branches of the Imperial Russian Musical Societiy, while the formation of the capital and other regional departments of the Society has already been studied in sufficient detail by Russian musicologists, workers of culture and local historians. Russian scientists have created a methodology for the study of such phenomena, developed approaches to the holistic knowledge of such iconic phenomena of the past musical culture as a dynamic transition to professional academic musical life and education throughout the Russian Empire. With concrete examples, the available developments are shown, especially in the field of studying the IRMS activities in Yalta. However, the description of the musical and performing life in Simferopol is insufficient and there is no full scientific information about the Kerch branch of the Russian Musical Society and that requires further research. In addition, there are no reasons described for the late opening Society branches in the Crimea.