Історико-Археологічний Нарис Петра Курінного «місто Гумань»: Повернення До Читача

Abstract

's social activity and scientific work had been analyzed in the article. The main scientific achievements of the scientist in emigration were highlighted. The first archaeological excavations of Petro Kurinnyi and his formation as an archaeologist had been explored. The attention was also payed to the teacher of the history and geography of Uman Man's Gymnasium Danylo Shcherbakivskyi in his promoting the admiration of archeology and ethnography among students. The author stated, that the first excavations on the territory of the Uman region, P. Kurin began while studying in the gymnasium. The study of the historical past of the Uman region had become much more active since 1913, when the Uman branch of the Kyiv Society for the Protection of Antiquities and Art appeared in Uman, and P. Kurinnyi was its member. Together with other members of the society P. Kurinnyi carried out archaeological excavations of the remains of the burial mounds in Kocherzhyntsi village. During these excavations, human remains, remnants of ceramics and metal jewelry were found. The basic directions of scientific establishments' activity where P. Kurinnyi took an active participation, had been shown. The main scientific achievements of the scientist in emigration were highlighted. Collaboration with the Institute for the Study of the USSR had being analyzed. The Ukrainian editorial board of the Institute was headed by P. Kurinnyi and in the course of 10 years, in collaboration with a talented group of researchers, he edited 17 volumes of scientific works entitled "Ukrainian Collection". The scientific path of a scientist in the Ukrainian Free University, administrative positions and main works, prepared by P. Kurinnyi for publication, had been indicated. The first two parts of the historical and archeological essay of Petro Kurinnyi on the history of Uman "City of Guman", published in 1952-1953 in four parts in the diaspora magazine "Avangard" had been analyzed. The parts of the mentioned essay contained an original view of the history of the region's settlement and introduced the most important events of the history of Uman from ancient times to the beginning of Haydamak rebelions. Thus, we conclusion that the results of archaeological excavations of P. Kurinnyi in the Uman region from 1912 to the beginning of the 1930's were a significant contribution to the study of the region's past. Significant contributions had been made to the study of the settlements of Trypillian culture in the villages of Uman region.

Library of Ukrainian Free Academy of Sciences: history and current state (According to publications from fond of Foreign Ukrainika of Institute of Book Studies of V. I. Vernadskyi National Library of Ukraine)

“…Аналіз досліджень і публікацій. Українські науковці А. Атаманенко [4; 5; 6], Н. Гриньох [11], В. Євтух [13], Г. Клинова-Дацюк [15; 16], І. Опацький [22], М. Хімка [31; 6] та інші в останні десятиріччя приділили значну увагу різним аспектам діяльності УВАН у вільному світі. Упродовж другої половини ХХ та початку ХХІ ст.…”