VOLODYMYR HRABOVETSKYI PERSONAL FUNDS AT THE ARCHIVAL INSTITUTIONS OF LVIV AND IVANO-FRANKIVSK

Abstract

The article analyzes the personal funds of Volodymyr Hrabovetskyi – Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor, the first head of the Department of History of Ukraine at Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University. He left a significant creative heritage – dozens of book editions, hundreds of articles. At the end of the twentieth century – at the beginning of the twenty-first century he also handed over his private collection for storage to the Department of Manuscripts of  Vasyl Stefanyk Lviv National Academic Library (fund № 268) and the State Archives of Ivano-Frankivsk oblast (fund № 2173, 832 cases). Among the materials of Volodymyr Нrabovetskyі private collection are documents of a biographical nature (originals and copies of certificates, diplomas, certificates of honor, etc.), author’s manuscripts of monographs and articles, scenarios of television broadcasts, creative workpieces, correspondence with various scientific and public organizations, publishing houses, documentation of the institutions in which the scientist, teacher and public figure worked (scientific reports by V. Нrabovetskyі at the Institute of Social Sciences of the National Academy of the USSR, materials on the awarding of the academic title of the professor, extracts from the protocols of the meetings of Department of History of Ukraine in Carpathian National University, etc.), texts of lectures, books with inscriptions, periodicals, local history books, dissertations, which are protected under the guidance of professor, and so on. Начало формыКонец формы

Working out materials of personal funds of Volodymyr Нrabovetskyі in the state archival and library institutions of Lviv and Ivano-Frankivsk is valuable not only directly for the study of his life and activity – the features of character, creative activity, relations with the people who surrounded, but also for the spirit of the time era through the prism documents of personal origin. As a separate primary sources (personal papers), private collection by Volodymyr Hrabovetskyi is of particular importance against the background of methodological search in modern Ukrainian historiography, when it has become a popular study of the history of everyday life and anthropological approach to the historical past.

Keywords: personal funds, private collection, archival institutions, sources of personal origin, Volodymyr Hrabovetski, Department of Manuscripts of Vasyl Stefanyk Lviv National Academic Library, the State Archives of Ivano-Frankivsk oblast.