Muzychko O. The process of institutionalization of historical research in the territory of Southern Ukraine (the second half of the 19th - the beginning of the 20th centuries)

The paper states that in the era of modernization, Southern Ukraine was crucial for the future fate of Ukraine and Eastern Europe, considering its powerful economic and cultural potential and an important geopolitical position. Such issues as historical heritage, historical memory and different visions of the past intensified in the second half of the 19th - early 20th centuries, still remaining relevant nowadays. They reflected social trends and the factors that shaped this development. The processes of interaction between historiographic and social factors are worth a comprehensive reflection, because they have had a constant influence on the fate of Ukraine. The aim of the study is to undertake a comprehensive analysis of historical thought, education and science in the territory of Southern Ukraine in the second half of the 19th - early 20th centuries within the evolution of the main stages, isolating poorly studied processes and phenomena, determining problematic and thematic priorities as well as substantiation of the prospects of scientific and historical research. The methodological basis of the dissertation is based on a set of fundamental principles of dialectics and determinism as well as general scientific ones such as historicism, objectivity and scientific approach. The use of these principles is complemented by a number of special historical methods, in particular: search-specific, cognitive, prosopographic, historical-geographical, problem-chronological, historical-statistical, historical-systemic, structural-functional, comparative and descriptive. Within the framework of the basic methodological principles, such scientific principles as analysis, synthesis, analogy, abstraction and others were applied in the work, which made it possible to fully disclose the chosen topic in a consistent, logical and complete form.