Dmitriev V. The boroughs of the south of Ukraine in the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century.

Тhe institution of the boroughs of the south of Ukraine in the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. The aim of investigation is complex study and analysis of the peculiarities of formation, development and practical activity of the boroughs. The methods of investigation are general scientific methods (historical, synchronous, chronological, the method of analysis and synthesis, systematic, statistical, the method of actualization) and special sientific methods (historical and genetic, comparative-historical). The boroughs of the south of Ukraine played an important part in economic development of southern seaports and neighbouring territories in building and organization of public services and amenities of Odessa, Feodosia, Kerch-Yenikalsk, Izmail, Sevastopol and Nikolayev, in creation of social and cultural infra-structure in them, in securing of the public order. The scientific novelity is that the complex analysis of the history of development of the boroughs of the south of Ukraine in the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century has been accomplished for the first time in the native historiography.The spheres of use are the scientific-research process, the educational process.