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THE SOUTH UKRAINE REGION IN CONTEMPORARY HISTORICAL RESEARCH

INTRODUCTION Over the last decades the scientific interest to regional history has significantly increased. Evolution of modern historical science involves not only all-Ukrainian issues, but also historical process analysis of particular regions of Ukraine. It is only possible to acknowledge all the peculiarities of general history of Ukraine by taking into consideration sociopolitical, socioeconomic and ethnocultural tendencies that manifest themselves in different parts of the country. The importance of regional factor analysis in the history of Ukraine has been discussed by famous Ukrainian historians of the XIX c. – the beginning of the XXth c. Regional diversity of Ukraine was illustrated in the works of M. Kostomarov, V. Antonovych, D. Bahalii, M. Hrushevsky, O. Ohloblyn etc. In particular, M.Hrushevshky included regional history in the context of general history of Ukraine that contributed to overcoming the image of Ukraine as an isolated land – former “Polish”, “Russian” Ukraine and Novorossiya Region. Among numerous historical research on regional issues (articles, monographs, thesises etc.) there are many that are dedicated to Southern Ukraine. This article will be mostly dealing with thesises on history of this region, which thematic reflects the main tendencies of scientific research in different branches of science. Bibliography “Scholars of History of Southern Ukraine”, made by historians of Berdyansk State University in cooperation with Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, provides information about 386 scholars who worked on South Ukraine issues 1 . According to an estimate, in 1991–2019 more than 300 candidate and doctoral thesises were defended regarding the history of Southern Ukraine. These research focus on various aspects of socioeconomic and social and political history of the South Ukraine Region. These research should be welcomed. However, a number of key methodological issues of historical research of Southern Ukraine in modern historiography are still unsolved. Particularly, contemporary research is