The presented article raises the problem of worldview transformations of the Soviet era. We are talking about changes associated with the era of "thaw", when on the initiative of the new leader of the CPSU M. Khrushchev Soviet society began to break free from Stalin's shackles of repressive pressure on consciousness, resulting in a whole galaxy of extraordinary thinkers of the word. The purpose of the author's research was to conduct a content analysis of literary journals and almanacs published during 1954—1959 in the regional branches of the Writers' Union of Ukraine. The author's attention includes publications stored in the funds of the State Archive of Printing of the Book Chamber of Ukraine named after Ivan Fedorov, in particular, such magazines as: "Kharkiv", "Crimea", "Literary Odessa", "Literary Donbass", "Literary Rivne Region", "Carpathians", "Lights of Zaporizhia", "Literary Podillya", "Lights of Dnieper", "Dоnbass", "Steppe", "Khmelnytsky Almanac", "Literary Sevastopol", etc. The author tried to combine the substantive characteristics of the latter into headings and, if possible, to classify them. Among the established and widely marked in all regional periodicals of the then Ukraine sections, first of all, the historical and local lore, literary and local lore, documentary and amateur directions were revealed and processed. In addition, the author paid attention to the bibliographic parameters of the regional periodicals of the USSR in 1954—1959, namely, circulation (in the annual dynamics of circulation), subscription campaigns, sales of magazines by means of retail trade, the cost of magazines and more. The presented article analyzes in detail the composition of the editorial boards of these publications. Given the low circulation of journals processed by the author, we can talk about their rarity and underutilization in the research field of modern Ukraine.