АРХІВНІ ФОЛЬКЛОРНО-ЕТНОГРАФІЧНІ ДОКУМЕНТИ – ВАЖЛИВЕ ДЖЕРЕЛО ДЛЯ ВИВЧЕННЯ ЕТНІЧНОЇ ІСТОРІЇ УКРАЇНЦІВ

Abstract

The article is aimed at the description of unique materials in folklore, ethnography and art studies. They are included into the List of National Acquirement of Ukraine and preserved at the funds of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine M. Rylskyi Institute for Art Studies, Folkloristics and Ethnology (thereafter – Archives of the Institute). Basing on the principles of historical method and objectivity, general scientific approaches are used, namely analysis and synthesis (during the work with sources and literature), the method of reconstruction and others. A wide publishing activities of the scholars in the use of archival materials for the accomplishment of state planned scientific tasks, the development of the studies in local history and tourism are described for the first time. The processes of interest in local cultures, search for own identity have been increased in the world of globalization. These facts excite the eminent interest in the study of spirituality, preservation of historical memory. The processes, caused by the search for own roots by the population, that has sustained enforced resettlement from the flooded villages in the 1960s, are analyzed for the first time. They are connected with the Decree of the Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR «On the Measures concerning the Resettlement of the Population and Transportation of the Premises and Buildings to New Places in the connection with the Erection of Kaniv Hydroelectric Power Plant». It is only one of six storage reservoirs, which has engulfed over 20 villages. An issue of the improvement of conditions for the preservation and publication of the materials, which have over-significant importance in the system of national culture, is considered. The material, collected purposefully by the scientists and correspondents of the Ethnographic Commission of All-Ukrainian Academy of Sciences according to the specialized programs in the 1920s–1930s, is inestimable and significant for the study of everyday culture. Attention is paid to the use of the manuscript heritage (Archives of the Institute) as the main source in numerous scientific works by the scholars of Ukraine and other countries. The necessity of improvement of publishing point of the archival materials with the aim of preservation and popularization of spiritual values for the integration of Ukrainian civil society and preservation of historical memory is emphasized.