The monograph is devoted to the study of the influence of education on the everyday life of citizens of West Siberian cities of the second half of the 19th - early 20th centuries: the role of secular schools, cultural and educational organizations, the literacy of vowel urban thoughts and the priorities and nature of their activities. The state of the health sector and the peculiarities of its development, leisure and mass culture of citizens are considered. The monograph is designed for historians and readers interested in the problems of the history of Siberia and the social history of Russia as a whole.