Abstract
The article presents the analysis of historiographical achievements made by the scientists of the imperial era in such important methodological aspects of the historical study of the cities of Dnipro Ukraine in the last quarter of XIX – beginning of XX centuries as scientific definition of the concept of «city», its typology and functional purpose. It has been grounded that the works of pre-Soviet authors laid the foundations for defining basic concepts of one of the most complex and multidimensional objects of scientific study, which is a city. Being in close relationship, these concepts form terminological and conceptual system used by historical science. The problem of the content of basic concepts is caused by the existence of various forms of urban settlements and the reflection of the phenomenon of the city in the public consciousness, administrative and demographic statistics, from where it was introduced into science. As a result of historiographic analysis, it has been established that only certain aspects of urban issues have been covered in the works of modern scholars, including scientific definition of the concept, typology and functional purpose of the city. In pre-Soviet literature, the concept of the «city» was associated with a settlement that had a legal status and large population, mostly employed in trade and industry. At the same time, the thesis was formed about the identity of the concepts of «city» and «trade and industrial centre», which became dominant in the second half of the nineteenth century. This fact made most researchers to follow W. Sombart in recognizing cities only «in the economic sense». Scientists generally recognized the weakness of the urban policy of the Russian autocracy, which was primarily guided by administrative needs. And some scientists have tried to come up with their own vision of the criteria according to which a particular settlement can be considered to be a city.
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