At present, one of the leading scientific problems associated with the history of the Great Patriotic War is the analysis of the factors of the USSR's Victory in it. One of them is agitation and propaganda work, unfolded on the pages of the Soviet periodicals. The relevance of this study is also determined by the appeal to a specific region - the North-West of Russia, occupied for a long time by the German fascist troops. The aim of the study was to analyze the content of the Soviet periodicals in the North-West of the RSFSR during the war period, which under occupation became the most important means of propaganda and fight against Nazism. The work is based on numerous sources, first of all - materials from the central and regional periodicals, published and distributed in the North-West of Russia during the years of occupation. In addition, the research was based on materials from local archives, which made it possible to analyze the content of local newspapers and characterize the process of their distribution among the population. When analyzing periodicals and archival materials, the authors applied historical-genetic and comparative methods, methods of system-functional analysis and synthesis. The article shows the content of the Soviet periodicals on the territory of the North-West of Russia during the war period. The newspapers published information about the battlefields on the Soviet-German front, about the crimes of Nazism, posted letters from citizens deported to Germany as ostrabeiters, contained information about the progress of economic recovery in areas liberated from Nazi occupation. It was noted that the role of the print press in the region changed during its occupation. In the first months of the war, local underground newspapers were published in handwritten form and in small numbers. Positive shifts in outreach and propaganda work among the local population took place with the creation of underground forest guerrilla printing houses. In addition, the occupied areas were supplied with local and central press by sending it daily to nearby areas and airdropping to distant points. The agitation and propaganda activity that unfolded in the pages of the periodicals played a significant role in the development of resistance to the Nazi occupation regime in the North-West of Russia.
