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The Ethnology Notebooks. 2024. № 5 (179), 1169—1180

UDK 38(477)”19″(092)Гургула І.

DOI https://doi.org/10.15407/

IRYNA GURGULA AS A SCIENTIST OF UKRAINIAN ETHNOGRAPHY OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

TSURKAN Mariana

  • ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-4267-5157
  • Candidate of Historical Sciences (Ph.D. in History),
  • Junior Researcher at the Ethnology Institute
  • of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine,
  • 15, Svobody Avenue, Lviv, 79000, Ukraine,
  • Contacts: e-mail: mariana_tsyrkan@gmail.com

Abstract. Iryna Gurgula (1904—1967) is a famous Ukrainian scientist. Her scientific activity had a great influence on development of Ukrainian ethnology. She is known as popularizer of Ukrainian ethnographic science in the twentieth century.

The Lviv scientific center in the twentieth century was founded in dangerous, disturbing and difficult conditions of the communist regime. The researchers of Lviv created, developed and popularized the Ukrainian ethnology when all spheres of Ukrainian society were controlled from moscow. Iryna Gurgula was one of the representative of the scientific center of Lviv in the twentieth century. The scientific activity of Iryna Gurgula deserves the attention of researchers, as well as her scientific and museology researches. The article explores different areas of scientific activity of Iryna Gurgula in Department of ethnography of the Cultural and Historical Museum of Shevchenko Scientific Society and in Lviv State Ethnographic Museum of the AS of the Ukrainian SSR.

The purpose of the article is tо reproducethe process of the formation of personality and scientific interests of Iryna Gurgula and is to find out the main results of her research in Department of Ethnography of the Cultural and Historical Museum of the SSSh and Lviv state Ethnographic museum of the AS of the Ukrainian SSR.

The object of the this study is to present the contribution of Iryna Gurgula in the process of development and popularization the Ukrainian ethnology. The subject of study is the scientific heritage, ethnographic projects, field ethnographic researches and museum exhibitions of scientist in area of the Ukrainian ethnology and museology.

The sourse basis of the article was the material of the archive of IN NANU, the Chronicle of the SSSh, the periodicals of that time and the epistolary.

The researcher methodology is based on principals of theoretical, scientific-bibliographic and historical-cultural analysis, observation and generalization of author.

Keywords: Iryna Gurgula, Shevchenko Scientific Society, Lviv state Ethnographic Museum of the AS of the Ukrainian SSR, ethnography.

Received 5.09.2024

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