HISTORIOGRAPHY AND SOURCE BASE OF THE FORESTRY OF GALICIA BEFORE THE SOVIET PERIOD

Abstract

In the article is given information about published and unpublished materials of Polish and Ukrainian scientists on the study of issues related to forestry, forest industries, logging, transport communications, timber rafting and crafts of Galicia during the XIX – the first third of the XX century. The historiography on the problems of the forest complex can be divided into several research periods: publications of the late XIX – early XX centuries; the interwar period of XX century; the Soviet era; works of of independent Ukraine researchers. From the Polish researchers should pointed on the works of S. Ignatovich, S. Gubitsky, J. Topfer.In the Soviet period and the times of Ukraine’s independence, the attention of G. Kovalchak, V. Grabovetsky, M. Glushko, R. Fedyna, I. Zhaloba, R. Yurkevich, and others were pointed in the study of individual components of the forestry.The source database covers funds and historical documents. The main documents from the discovered period are stored in the funds of the Central State Historical Archives of Ukraine in Lviv: «Halych governorate», «Halych directorate of forests and state estates», «Regional land and tax commission», where materials for 1772–1921 were collected. The investigated problem can be found in the Ivano-Frankivsk Regional State Archives, in the funds: «Stanislavian Provincial Administration», «Stanislavian Labor Inspectorate 45 district».Much of the material is contained in numerous statistical yearbooks («Handbuch des Statthalerei-Gebietes in Galizien», «Podręcznik statystyki Galicyi», «Rocznik statystyki Galicyi», «Rocznik statystyki przemyslu i handlu krajowego», «Sprawozdanie z działalności administracji lasów państwowych i władz ochrony lasów», «Statystyka Polski», «Wiadomości statystyczne Glównego Urzędu Statystycznego»).