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Pavlenko Liudmyla Оrganizing of ukraine national minorities archive in the context of natminstudies in the 20th of the XXth centuryAbstract: Manuscript department of Institute of Art Studies, Folklore and Ethnology named after Maksym Rylsky NAS of Ukraine stores the Cabinet archive with information about minorities in Ukraine at Ukrainian Academy of Sciences Ethnographic Commission (Foundation Natmin 7). It includes 89 items. They contain materials that cover 1869-1931 years. Among them there are handwritten and printed documents, copies of the press, posters, programs, advertisements, calendars, folklore collections, epistolary, diaries, photographes, statistical and historical research, etc., that give researchers important information about settlements on the territory of Ukraine different peoples, their way of life, traditions and culture. The basis of the natmin archive collection were founded by Rykhlik Eugene (1888–1937) – Slavic scholar, linguist, ethnographer, ethnologist, teacher and public figure of Czech origin. His collection of documents formated from the first half of the 1920th before his arrest on charges of national-chauvinist and counterrevolutionary activities in favor of bourgeois Czechoslovakia in 1931. The basis of the collection is the scientists’ personally purchased materials on the history of Czechs Ukrainians of Volyn and Kyiv region. After the creation on 28 January 1929 the Cabinet to study minorities in Ukraine and the appointment of Eugen Rykhlik to fulfill the duty of its Head the scientific archive of the cabinet was founded. It consisted of 12 departments on different nationalities – Czechs, Bulgarians, Germans, Greeks and others. Archive replenished through active work of the leader, members and correspondents of Natmin Cabinet. The value of the stored natmin scientific archive is that it reflects the state of natmin development as an important component of ethnology in the 20th years of the XXth century and helps to research the ethnic history of the multinational Ukraine. Keywords: archive, Natmin Cabinet, natminstudies (natsmenoznavstvo), Eugen Rykhlik. Author(s) citation:
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