Zhurba O. The Formation of Ukrainian Archeography and Historiographic Process in the second half of the 18th - first half of the 19th century

The object - historywriting in ukrainian regions of the Russian empire of the second half of XVIII-th - first half of XIX-th centuries. The aim - elucidation of the process of ukrainian national archeography's formation as synthesis of native regional histo-rywriting and intellectual improvements of the second half of XVIII-th - first half of XIX-th centuries. Methods - historical-genetic, comparative, method of source study. Results - directions and forms in the development of archeographic activity were discovered, periods of it's institualization, socio-cultural, scientific and educa-tional potencial of personnel's provision in the sphere of preparation and edition of historic source were determined; scientific and ideological orientations of regional historians were revealed; the degree of originality separate scientists and institution's contribution into the formation of native archeography was discovered, special char-acter of individual, inner motivation of historywriting, peculiarities of historians'es and specialists in study of early text's self-identification were exposed, complex of basic archeographic ideas, peculiarities of the formation of archeographic thought were discovered and analyzed. Novelty - new conception of development of ukrain-ian archeography and historic science was proposed and realized. The results of the thesis are applied in educational process. Sphere of use - investigation of the history of historic science and spiritual culture, educational process.