Gotsulyak V. M.Grushevskyi and Ukrainian historical science is the period from the 1880-th of the XIX - th century till the beginning of the XX-th century: historiography of the problem.

Candidate for a degree represents the results of scientific research of the period from the 80-th of the XIX-th century till the beginning of the XX-th century in Ukrainian historical science as the period of intensive, organisational, ideological and conceptual self-determination, separation from the other structures and framing of Ukranian historiography. According to the proposed theoretical pattern, starting with the pre-Revolutionary period till 1999, historiographical reconstruction, analysis of the process of studying and interpretation of the general and specific problems of periodization, the place of Ukrainian historiographical science that time, research of the activities of organising institutions, historical schools and creative work of the leading historians of that epoch are carried out.