MATERIALS OF INDIVIDUAL ORIGIN FROM THE PRIVATE COLLECTION OF PROFESSOR VOLODYMYR HRABOVETSKYI

Abstract

In the article, the author tries to recreate the public-cultural and scientific activities of the well-known scientist Volodymyr Hrabovetskyі in Ukraine on the basis of materials of personal origin. Volodymyr Hrabovetskyі’s private collection is distinguished by representativeness, indicating a wide interest of the author and significant public relations. The scientist collected rich ethnographic and tourist literature, guides and tourist charts.

The private collection focuses on numerous programs of all-Ukrainian and regional conferences of different ages, invitations to various social and cultural events. V. Нrabovetskyі was often invited to celebratory evenings by well-known people of the city.

The photographs of V. Нrabovetskyі’s private collection are of a highly informative nature. He kept photographs on the background of memorable places, visiting museums, organizing excursions with students and during the period of residence in Lviv and in Ivano-Frankivsk. Many photo documents are devoted to Armenian issues. Existing in the collection V. Нrabovetskyі also rare photos, little known to the general public. Relatively few photos of personal character. Volodymyr Hrabovetskyі also kept a rich collection of microfilms on historical themes in a private collection.

Volodymyr Hrabovetskyі kept the clippings from the newspapers of the 1970–1980’s (Transcar­pathian truth, Komsomolsk flag, Prikarpatskaіa Pravda, New Life, and Voice of Pokuttia) on local lore, Cossack and Opryshki subjects. The private archive also contains a selection of magazines “Pereval”, “Ukrainian Historical Magazine”, “Man and the World”, “Volia and the native land”, “Science and Society”, “Hutsul­shchyna”, “Archives of Ukraine”, “Kyiv”, “Prometheus” etc.

The manuscripts of V. Нrabovetskyi in the 1980–1990’s are few, most of the preserved materials are billets (previous printouts of books and brochures of Grabovetsky published during the 2000s and 2010s). In addition, manuscript workpieces of V. Нrabovetskyі's performances at the solemn meeting were preserved. Interest is also represented by such sources of personal origin as notes for memory, correspondence, as well as abstracts of dissertation research with donut inscriptions.