Through the
prism of the latest, modern review of the scientific and creative biography of
Ukrainian archaeologist, historian, ethnologist, publicist, museologist,
vice-president of the All-Ukrainian Archaeological Committee (VUAK) of the
All-Ukrainian Academy of Sciences (VUAN) Serhiy Spyrydonovych (Svyrydovych)
Hamchenko his personal archive, which are stored in his personal fund
(f. № 3) of the Scientific Archive of the Institute of Archeology of
the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (NA IA NASU) (Kyiv, fund № 3) are researched, analyzed and rethought.
Also information is represented (in a broad framework of timeless polylogue of scientists and epochs)
about the activities of a tireless scientist from other official archives,
manuscript collections, numerous publications of well-known experts in history, archaeology and source studying. Emphasized that archive fund
of S. Hamchenko consists mostly of a collection of scientific
manuscripts related mainly to archaeological research of sites located in Ukraine
and Russia, which are devoted more to organization and conduct of
archaeological excavations. There was also found S. Hamchenko’s epistolary,
official and report notes on the organization of museum study in Ukraine, works
of the All-Ukrainian Archaeological Committee, notebooks, official documents,
photographs and other «visual» materials, collections of books, magazines and
newspapers, etc. It is confirmed that the significant share of these source
studies «papers» has not been published to date.
Also the
little-known archival materials of S. Hamchenko, which contained in the Scientific Archive
of the St. Petersburg Branch of the Institute of Archeology of the Russian
Academy of Sciences (IA RAS) were processed. On the base
of studying of archival
and historiographical sources an attempt is made to truthfully, comprehensively,
holistically reproduce the socio-biographical aspects and creative features of
the chronicle of the life and scientific activity of the extraordinary scholar.
It was paid considerable attention to specific, sometimes controversial issues
of scientific and source «biography», primarily important prosopographic
nuances of adequate, final clarification of the exact dates and places of
S. Hamchenko’s birth and death (as well as the establishment of its
medical cause).
The problem-thematic
range of scientific interests of S. Hamchenko is extended from the
Paleolithic, Neolithic, Bronze Age to the times of Kyivs’ka Rus’. The scholar
have discovered 45 sites of Trypillia culture on the
Southern Bugh river, conducted various archeological excavations mainly in
Eastern and South-Eastern Volhyn’, Podillya, Kyiv, Cherkasy, Dnipropetrovs’k,
Kharkiv, Odessa, Bessarabia regions and other places of Ukrainian and Russian
territory (Gulf of Finland area near Sestrorets’k near St. Petersburg).
It is confirmed that documents
and archival materials related to the biography of S. Hamchenko is an
integral part of the national cultural heritage and serve as an important authentic, factual source for a
full, holistic study of the multifaceted history of archeology, ethnography,
ethnology and museum studies in Ukraine at the end of the XIX th century –
in the first third of the XX th century
