REGIONAL INFORMATION IN A LIBRARY
Even in the XIX century scientists noted a link between the specificity of society development and geographical conditions of residence. So the founder of anthropogeography and geopolitics German geographer, ethnologist and sociologist-positivist Friedrich Ratzel stated that "Almost in all countries of non-European cultural circle the rulers are invaders-aliens. National consciousness arises later making its way in the form of state-power, when mental interests of people come in" [5]. Domestic thinker D.S. Likhachev noted that "If people living in some geographical area do not have a holistic cultural and historical past, traditional cultural life, cultural relics, then they (or their rulers) inevitably have a temptation to justify its state integrity by any kind of totalitarian concepts that are more severe and inhumane than less state integrity is determined by cultural criteria" [2, 4]. Thus, to approach the study of society, one can start with how it is characterized by some "external" researchers, but no less interesting would be a study of the views of society about itself. And here it turns out that a modern man knows little not only about other communities, but also about himself. Moreover, this problem exists in the literature already for a long time [3].