Brovchenko I. Colonization and economical developing of Ukrainian southeast steppes in the latter half of XVII - through XVIII cr.

Object: the territories of the "Dikoe Pole" - region, which was situated in the middle current of the Severskii Donets river; the aims: to trace the process of the population's structure formation and economical development peculiarities, to reveal the internal and external factors, which determined the course of events, to show the place and the role of the above-mentioned territories in the frontiers of the "Dikoe Pole" in the latter half of XVII - through XVIII cr.; methods: problem-chronological structural-comparative, system-analytical; the new approach lies in well founded periodisation of the population's structure formation process, determination of colonization activity and degree trans-ethnical interaction, characterising of settlements' region system, determination of settlements' founding chronology, revealing the key economies, historical-archaeological reconstruction of economical and ethnocultural structure of the standart settlement; results: introduced into educational process pedagogical university the main achievementts and generalizations of generalizations; the field is the History of Ukraine, Local Lore.