The editions of the works of art S.Kovaliv published during his life and posthumously. Examine the artistic peculiarities of the short prose by S.Kovaliv on the background of the Ukrainian literature's evolution at the end of the 19th at the beginning of the 20th century. Historical-biographical, problematical-topical and comparative-typic research methods with the predominance of the textual hermeneutic. The original methods of the analysis of the ideological-topical paradigma were proposed. The sources and evolution of the writer's creation were revealed. They can by realized in the scientific, educational and publishing work. It was inculcated in the teacher's practice at the state University named after B.Hmelnitskiy at Cherkassy, at the secondary school №11 at Berdyansk. The improvement of the student's and pupil's knowledge. The comprehension of the peculiarities of the evolution of the Ukrainian literature process at the threshold of the centuries. The course "Ukrainian short stories XIX - begin ning of the XX century" and special course "The traditionalist's innovations (based on the subject of the short prose by S.Kovaliv).
