Based on a comprehensive analysis of the materials of the State Archives of Odessa Region, periodicals, charters of Bulgarian charitable societies, reports of the Bulgarian Board of Trustees in Odessa, and scientific literature, the article comprehensively reflects the charitable activities of Bulgarians in the South of Ukraine in the mid-nineteenth – early twentieth century. The main attention in the research is paid to the creation and activity of the “Bulgarian Board of Trustees in Odessa”. Based on the information of the charter, the society’s reports and archival materials, the participation, status and nationality of the society’s benefactors, the directions of its activities, revenues and expenditures have been reproduced. The activities of the society were aimed at supporting Bulgarian Orthodox churches, providing scholarships to Bulgarian pupils, purchase and sending of church and secular literature to Bulgaria, translation and publication of books in Bulgarian. In the second half of the 1870s, the Board of Trustees allocated significant funds for the uniforms of Bulgarian volunteers, the formation of a militia of Bulgarians fleeing to Odessa after the Serbo-Turkish War and their military training in army regiments, the purchase of weapons, and assistance to soldiers. It is noted that the Board of Trustees became an important center of patronage and education and maintained ties with other charitable societies in the South of Ukraine, as well as with all-Russian and Bulgarian societies. Bulgaria’s position in the First World War led to the liquidation of all Bulgarian charitable societies in southern Ukraine by the imperial government. It is noted that Bulgarians were not co-opted into the society of Southern Ukraine and focused most of their efforts on helping Balkan compatriots, training teachers for Bulgarian schools, and not on the development of Bulgarian education in the South of Ukraine.

Changes in society lead to changes in science, changing its fundamental foundations - ideological and value, methodological and instrumental foundations. In turn, a change in the scientific paradigm leads to social change. A situation of this kind is especially evident in the socio-political sciences, since it is they who are more affected by social reality. The nature of postmodern societies is such that its economic component generates a huge number of subcultures, in the scientific world it is called "subcultural explosion." Postmodern societies are societies of permanent changes: consumer standards, moral values, political structure, and so on, repeatedly change during the life of one generation, significantly affect the search for the truth of science and its understanding. In the list of various questions of truth, its character, origin, postmodern departs from objective truth, therefore it becomes contextual and consensus. Theories are replaced by approaches, views, points of view, thoughts. Scientific concepts with their strict certainty change concepts, in which under the same name everyone puts their own meaning and essence. According to this, in postmodernism, not only the scientific paradigm as a model of scientific activity is changing, but the purpose of science, its understanding as a special activity with the search for truth, is changing. This implies a review of the attitude to the "organizational forms" of science, that is, the way in which scientific knowledge is disseminated to the professional scientific community to search for truth, which in its classical understanding no longer exists.

Мета статті-дослідити етнокультурні особливості представників різних віросповідань за даними церковних актів реєстрації громадянського стану. Методологія дослідження полягає у використанні історико-культурного та порівняльного методів, які дають змогу виявити культурні традиції та особливості, що знайшли відображення на сторінках метричних книг представників різних віросповідань. Наукова новизна зумовлена тим, що метричні книги містять багатющий інформаційний матеріал, а достатній ступінь їх збереженості в архівах України дозволяє виявити етнокультурні особливості представників різних віросповідань. Висновки. Вивчення метричних книг дозволяє дослідникам виокремити етноконфесійні особливості розвитку церковних громад. Зокрема, шанування церковних святих та надання їх імен немовлятам знайшло відображення у метриках православного населення. Фіксування обряду обрізання та укладання шлюбного договору, наявність окремої метричної книги для записів розлучень наявні в метриках іудеїв. Надання подвійних імен немовлятам, потрійне оголошення щодо укладання шлюбу, вказівка всіх членів родини при записі померлого характерні для метрик представників німецькомовного населення. Ключові слова: конфесійні та етнокультурні маркери, метричні книги, церковні акти, етнічні групи, культурні особливості. Гедё Анна Владимировна, доктор исторических наук, профессор, профессор кафедры истории Украины Киевского университета имени Бориса Гринченко; Крыгина Ольга Валерьевн, кандидат исторических наук, доцент кафедры культурологии и информационной деятельности Мариупольского государственного университета КОНФЕССИОНАЛЬНЫЕ И ЭТНОКУЛЬТУРНЫЕ МАРКЕРЫ В МЕТРИЧЕСКИХ КНИГАХ Цель статьи-исследовать этнокультурные особенности представителей различных вероисповеданий по данным церковных актов регистрации гражданского состояния. Методология исследования заключается в использовании историко-культурного и сравнительного методов, которые позволяют выявить культурные традиции и особенности, которые нашли отражение на страницах метрических книг представителей различных вероисповеданий. Научная новизна обусловлена тем, что метрические книги содержат богатейший информационный материал, а достаточная степень их сохранности в архивах Украины позволяет выявить этнокультурные особенности представителей различных вероисповеданий. Выводы. Изучение метрических книг позволяет исследователям выделить этноконфессиональные особенности развития церковных общин. В частности, почитание церковных святых и предоставления их имен новорожденным нашло отражение в метриках православного населения. Фиксация обряда обрезания и заключения брачного договора, наличие отдельной метрической книги для записей разводов представлены в метриках иудеев. Предоставление двойных имен новорожденным, тройное объявление о заключении брака, указание всех членов семьи при записи умершего характерны для метрик представителей немецкоязычного населения. Ключевые слова: конфессиональные и этнокультурные маркеры, метрические книги, церковные акты, этнические группы, культурные особенности.

Under the conditions of the formation of the civil society, the social significance of archival institutions is increasing. The archives perform a number of important functions to store the documentary memory of the state and society. The development of modern historical science is characterized by the study of the mass sources. The parish registers play an important role as a type of the mass sources. The identification and usage of the informational potential of the parish registers and the storage of this historical source is becoming extremely urgent today. Moreover, there is an urgent need to systematize the parish registers that are stored in the local state archives, to protect metrics from damage and loss as well as to guarantee the proper storage for both modern researchers and descendants can use them.The archivists work actively to improve the scientific reference system for the parish registers, to establish catalogues and to publish information on the official sites of the institutions. An important trend in ensuring the storage of the archival documents is the digitization. The digital archives and parish registers are available on the official websites of the archival institutions. The archival institutions of Ukraine within the framework of international activities carry out activities in the usage of the information presented in the parish registers. The archival institutions actively collaborate with the genealogical societies and organizations. The parish registers, as a source with enormous informative potential, are of a high interest to the researchers. It should be noted about the necessity of the further usage of the parish registers and the proper storage of these historical sources.

This article is an attempt to review religious and cultural features and to find published images on the pages of parish registers of different creeds. To determine and study the relevant and cultural features of the information recording in the parish registers, we considered appropriate to consolidate the comparative and historical-cultural method. The interest of scholars and novelty are proved due to the extremely large information potential of the church reports of civil status, considering their large array in the state archives and satisfactory physical status, suitable for appendage.The study of ecclesiastical acts of civil status makes it possible to study the religious and cultural peculiarities via the records characteristic for representatives of different religions. We should separately mention the peculiarities of the entries in parish registers of the Orthodox population regarding the veneration of holy figures according to the church calendar, which impacted the naming of newborns. Jewish records are characterized by the rite of circumcision of newborn boys and records as for a marriage contract (“ksubba / ktubba”).German-language parish registers attract attention to the double names given to newborn babies, the obligation to declare an forthcoming marriage, and the presence of family information in records of the deceased.