Karpov V. Historical origins of Ukrainian military symbols and its development in independent Ukraine.

The thesis is devoted to the historical origins of Ukrainian military symbols and its development in independent Ukraine. For the first time disclosed the issue of forming symbols Ukrainian troops in an integrated and interconnected system during the independence of Ukraine in the late twentieth century.The first time the historical origins and predictors of military symbols of Ukraine, as well as the characteristic features of national identity military symbols.The author considers the main directions of symbolism in its state and military sense. Deals with the legal basis with state symbols, their historical genesis and meaning. Through scientific research of the substantial part documentary sources of funds of state archives and museum collections, using a wide array of published scientific papers and documents followed peculiarities of formation and development of symbolism Armed Forces of Ukraine and other military formations to which the National Guard of Ukraine, State Border Guard Service of Ukraine, Cluzhba security of Ukraine, Internal Troops of Ukraine, a division of the Ministry of Emergencies of Ukraine, State Special Transport Service, the State Service for Special Communications and Information Protection of Ukraine.