Kyiv Archaeological Institute (1917–1924) as a multidisciplinary platform for cooperation between humanities scholars of Kyiv
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.15407/uhj2019.06.082Keywords:
Kyiv Archaeological Institute, humanities, historical disciplines, professors, students.Abstract
Abstract. Purpose of the study. To illuminate the prerequisites of the formation and the main milestones of the Kyiv Archaeological Institute, to reveal its role as a multidisciplinary platform for cooperation between Kyiv’s humanities and scientists, to identify the contribution of educators and students of the Institute to historical and archaeological science, monumentology and archives, museology, art history etc., based on the analysis of a wide range of archival sources and published materials. The methodological foundations of the study are based on the principles of historicism, a scientific objectivity and consistency, a dialectical approach to historical phenomena. According to the set goals and objectives, a combination of general scientific, interdisciplinary and special research methods was used. The scientific novelty lies in the fact that the article comprehensively investigated the process of formation of KAI in Kyiv in the period from 1917 to 1924. Unexplored aspects of the development and activity of KAI were identified and rethought from the standpoint of modernity, based on the analysis of archival sources and published materials. It provided an overview of the variety of forms and activities of the institution in the complex of measures for the study, protection and popularization of monuments. The analysis of the achievements of educators and graduates of KAI is carried out. The interrelation of higher educational institutions, scientific institutions of the studied period with the Kyiv archaeological institute is revealed. In conclusion, it was stated that KAI has become a scientific and educational institution and a coordination and research enter, a platform for cooperation between humanities and scientists, the special historical disciplines have been developed in it. It is highlighted the role of KAI as a scientific forum, where Ukrainian art, Ukrainian archival studies, archaeology, and the documentary school of V.Antonovych were developed. It is noted that the history of art, together with the archival and bibliological spectrum of researches, were the main direction of the institute’s scientific activity. The Archaeological Institute in Kyiv was one of the main centers where the historical and comparative concept of the ancient Ukrainian cult architecture of I.Morhilevskyi was formed, as well as a center for the study of Kyiv studies issues of art history. The connection of KAI with the concepts of M.Hrushevskyi and his school, with representatives of the Kyiv Ukrainian Scientific Society is traced. It is noted that the result of the KAI’s activity was the formation of a new constellations of specialists, professional archaeologists, historians, archivists, art historians.
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