Pelypets M. Stepan Smal-Stotsky’s journalistic, editorial and publishing activities.

In the dissertation, for the first time in the history of Ukrainian journalism, the specificities of journalistic, editorial and publishing activities of socio-political, cultural figure and scholar Smal-Stotsky – has been thoroughly studied. His journalistic experience was studied, analyzed and updated, the main problematic and thematic aspects of his publications were identified, the specificity of creating a scientific direction of the topics of his publications were revealed. The retrospective experience of the launching and development of periodicals, which S. Smal-Stotsky was caretaking as a project curator, editor, publisher, was researched. The causal effects of his editorial activity, in particular, in the formation of periodicals, their periodicals, their genre and thematic content, were revealed; the complex of measures which Smal-Stotsky performed for improvement the content-formal structures of magazines, organization and selection of professional staff for their successful operation were revealed. The peculiarities of S. Smal-Stotsky's editorial-publishing practice in the selection of manuscripts and the publication of set of books that are important for the development of ukrainism were analyzed, editorial tools were described in preparation for the publication of works by O. Kobylyanska, V. Stefanyk, Y. Fedkovych and other significant figures in Ukrainian culture. His current contribution to the development of Ukrainian journalism in general was evaluated.