STATE ARCHIVE OF LVIV OBLAST: SOURCE POTENTIAL FOR THE HISTORY OF UKRAINIAN CULTURE

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INTRODUCTION Systemic and comprehensive research of the Ukrainian history of culture and science under the reign of Austria-Hungary started at the beginning of 1990, when the political changes in our country led to the removal of any restrictions on the usage of library and archive funds. Since that time the researchers started to actively investigate little-known materials in the richest collections of the Ukrainian central state historical archive in Lviv, Department of manuscripts in V. Stefanyk Lviv national library and State archive of Lviv oblast. This long-standing research of cultural and scientific Ukrainian materials in the abovementioned institutions resulted into the compilation of thematic indices that documented the state of processing of archive collections and at the same time they helped historians in their search for necessary documents. Nowadays, while we may turn to investigations on Ukrainian Central Historical Archive in Lviv 1 (UCHAIL) and Manuscript Department of Ukrainian National Scientific Library in Lviv 2 (MD UNSLIL), the on heuristic potential of State archive in Lviv oblast in the aspect of research on science and culture of Zbruch Ukrainians during national revival period remains virtually unknown. Such state of affairs results from the range of objective and subjective reasons. First of all, the thematic profile of State Archive in Lviv oblast (SAILO), which was created in December 1939 on the basis of the former