In the proposed historiographical survey, the problems of national minorities of Ukrainian researchers of the 1990s 20 centurybeginning of the 21 century are considered through a series of problematic and meaningful blocks, which determined the priorities of research practices at one or another stage of Ukrainian state formation under the influence of internal and external factors. The study revealed that in the existing Ukrainian and foreign scientific discourse, national minorities were thoroughly and multifacetedly revealed as a subject of Ukrainian state formation in the conditions of socio-political transformations, political instability and foreign policy challenges of the 1990s 20 th centurybeginning of the 21 st century. At the same time, however, the large range of views, opinions, and assessments belonging to representatives of national minorities and ethnic groups is not adequately represented, which actualizes further research practices in the new historical realities. At the present stage of development of Ukraine formed a modern galaxy of scientists with new scientific thinking in the field of study of ethno-national issues, seeking not only to objectively interpret it, but also to resist destructive forces, expansion of ideology of the "Russian world", responsibly predict the future and practice. It is in the focus on practical results that the possible plane of productive interaction between the historian and the authorities