Before the start of Second World War could Shiryaev snatches back to teaching and lecturing in the provincial universities. On the eve of the outbreak of war Shiryaev taught history of Russian literature in the Stavropol Pedagogical Institute. After the occupation of Stavropol German and Romanian troops (on August 3, 1942) and the closure of the Institute headed by Boris Shiryaev, newspaper "Stavropol word" first issue in the amount of four pages came a week after the arrival of the Germans. He wore a clear anti-Soviet, but the German censorship in it subject only to a summary of news from the front. Four months later, the newspaper was renamed the "Morning of the Caucasus", has spread across the North Caucasus region.
