The experience of preparing on a voluntary basis and publishing a multi-volume "History of cities and villages of the Ukrainian SSR" is of great interest not only among historians, but also among wide circles of the Soviet public. The creation of such a work was made possible thanks to the success that Soviet historical science has achieved recently, including in Ukraine. The appearance of numerous monographic studies, the expansion of the publication of local lore literature, the growth of a cadre of historians, and the Communist Party's daily concern for the development of historical science1 - all this made it possible to carry out that new form of research and popularization in the field of the history of the Ukrainian people, such as the multi-volume "History of Cities and Villages of the Ukrainian SSR". Its novelty lies primarily in the choice of the object of research-the history of all cities (and there are 368 of them in the republic) and many of the largest villages in Ukraine (about 1500). Never and nowhere has such a large task been set and no attempt has been made to give systematic essays on the history of such a large number of localities. 2 Thousands of cities and villages in Ukraine and entire regions receive their own scientifically developed history. At the same time, it is also, to a certain extent, a new form of research work in the sense of its very organization. This is reflected in the fact that the creation of the history of cities and villages of the republic is carried out by the public, people of different professions and on a voluntary basis. It is known that even in the first years of Soviet power, the participants of these events themselves, who became their first historians, played a huge role in the development of the study of the history of the Great October and the Civil War. Subsequently, in the 1930s, the History of Factories and Factories and the first volumes of the History of the Civil War in the USSR were prepared with the in ... Читать далее