Abstract: The subject of this research is the examination of the literary-publicistic legacy of the prominent figure of the late XIX – early XX century, the reformist of Oriental education, enlightener of the Turkic world, publisher, and publicist Ismail Gaspirali. For thirty years, he issued a newspaper “Tercüman” in Crimea that became the paramount information source of its time, reflecting the relevant questions of the political and socioeconomic character. The author analyzes his publications through the prism of their structuring, use of functionally semantic types of speech, as well as compositional peculiarities.  The following methods were applied in the course of research: comparative-historical, historical-functional, structural-typological, literary-biographical, intertextual and comparative text analysis. The conclusion is made that the compositional and structural specificity of newspaper publications of Ismail Gaspirali – from the concept and idea to turning into a journalistic work – represents a holistic arrangement of text that has all corresponding elements, giving a program tone to Gaspirali’s publicistic works.