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2025
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19512233 |
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- <p><span>The purpose of the study is to review the correspondence of Mykola Plaviuk, Ukrainian state and public-politician, the last head of the UNR Government in exile, that was transferred to the Central State Archives of Public Organizations and Ucrainica by The Olzhych Foundation in 2024; to analyze the information potential and scientific value of this epistolary for the study of<strong> </strong>the social and political life of Ukrainians in the second half of <span>the 20<sup>th</sup> century in exile and in Ukraine in 1991–2011; to determine the</span> degree of representativeness. Based on these letters, to identify new data on Plaviuk’s activities in various spheres of public life. <strong>The methodological basis</strong> was the use of the general principles of historical research – histori</span><span>cism, objectivism, systematic analysis, as well as biographical and proso</span><span>pographic methods. <strong>The scientific novelty</strong> lies in the fact that these docu</span><span>ments have not yet been made publicly available to researchers, and this</span><span> review is the first attempt at a scientific analysis of this correspondence and <span>its introduction into scientific circulation. <strong>Conclusions.</strong> The article deals with</span> only a part of Mykola Plaviuk’s epistolary heritage. Based on a comprehen</span><span>sive analysis of the correspondence, it can be concluded that the documents <span>of Plaviuk’s personal archive transferred by the Olzhych Foundation to the</span> Central State Archives of Public Organizations and Ucrainica will be an important addition to the National Archival Holdings of Ukraine. The docu</span><span>ments are of great historical value, have a significant information potential, contain a lot of diverse interesting information about the socio-political, cul</span><span>tural, and scientific life of Ukrainians in exile; the organization of everyday life and leisure, economic and charitable activities in the second half of the 20<sup>th</sup> century, as well as events in Ukraine during the first 20 years of resto</span><span>ration of its state independence. At the same time, these documents open up new knowledge about certain pages of M. Plaviuk’s biography, his thoughts on the ways of development of the political process in Ukraine, his psycho</span><span>logical state, and his attitude towards political opponents</span><span class="rynqvb"><span>.</span></span></p>