The purpose of the research is to show how the pages of the first Polish specialized history journal "Kwartalnik Historyczny" were covered at the turn of the 19th and 20th cen. the history of the cities of the Galician territories. The research methodology is based on the principles of historicism, systematicity, scientificity, verification, author's objectivity using general scientific and special historical methods. The scientific novelty of the study lies in the fact that, for the first time, based on the materials of research, review and source materials on the history of Galician cities, published in the journal “Kwartalnik Historyczny” at the turn of the XIX – XX centuries, the coverage of historical urban topics has been characterized. Conclusions. A valuable historiographical source of information about the form and content of urban studies by Galician region researchers is the journal “Kwartalnik Historyczny”, the official printed organ of Historical Society, which was published in Lviv from 1887 to 1939. From the beginning of its foundation, this journal acted as a professional tribune of historians, which determined the specificity of the research and information-critical materials displayed on its pages and contributed to the creation of the scientific foundations of local, including historical and urban studies, not only in Polish, but also, to some extent, in Ukrainian historical science. Special attention to the past of Red Rusʼ, declared in the statute of Historical Society, directed research attention to the least studied region in historical science at that time. The Lviv period of the journal existence is an illustration of the general evolution of the history of Galician urbanism understood through the prism of the creative work of several generations of researchers of antiquity. And the reconstruction of such significant, but little-known contributions to the history of historical science, such as the work of the authors of the journal “Kwartalnik Historyczny”, contributes to clarifying the specific features of the development of the specified problem.