Stychynskyi I. Everyday life of the soldiers of the Austro-Hungarian and Russian armies on Ukrainian territory during the First World War.

The source of the research consists of published, partly published and unpublished materials of archives and collections of documents. The thesis uses a significant number of illustrative sources – photographs which illustrate the investigated features of the soldiers’ everyday life and the living conditions of the troops. The complex of historiography involved in work includes both domestic and foreign works devoted to the research subject. Among them there are works of a general-historical nature, as well as those that are devoted to issues inherent in special branches of historical science (uniformology, phaleristics). The study contains information on the military-historical development of Ukrainian territories at the beginning of the 20th century. Considerable attention is paid to the issues of uniform and equipment, the provision of material support, the soldiers’ living conditions of the investigated armies in the front conditions during the First World War. The paper also focuses on various issues of the warriors’ everyday life, in particular, interethnic communication, transformation of festive practices in front-line conditions, and so on. Relatively less-studied aspects of the topic especially stand out. In particular, the issue of the woman at the front, this is considered in two dimensions: a military woman and a woman close to the front. Considerable attention is paid to the phenomenon of non-military contacts between soldiers of the opposed armies. The work gives a more detailed analysis of the military-anthropological component of the volunteerism history in the Austro-Hungarian Army – the USR Legion and the Polish Legions. It is emphasized that their way of life significantly influenced the formation of the appropriate cultural environment. The acquisitions produced in it would have a significant impact on the development of the national movement of Poles and Ukrainians after the First World War. The paper also substantiates the importance of military-anthropological studies of the First World War, in particular on Ukrainian lands. Similar studies allow a more comprehensive examination of the conflict. In this context, positive factors can include the fact that the results of the work can be involved and used in other branches of historical science, such as ethnography, history of everyday life, history of mentality, etc.