THE IMAGE OF KHOLM REGION AS A CENTER OF PRINCEDOM IN THE PUBLICATIONS OF «UKRAINIAN PUBLISHING HOUSE». VISIONS OF VOLODYMYR SICHINSKYI, SEMEN LIUBARSKYI, MYRON KORDUBA

The publications of «Ukrainian Publishing House» were analyzed: newspaper articles of «Krakivskii visti» and books from the «National Library» publishing series, «Past and Present» by Semen Liubarskyi, Volodymyr Sichynskyi and Myron Korduba. The publication selected for the work is devoted to the region of the Polish-Ukrainian borderland, the westernmost areas where Ukrainians lived. The problematic and thematic specifi city of the works, primarily the image of the city of Kholm and the region in the Middle Ages, was defi ned. There is noted that the image of the city of Kholm as a princely seat, a capital city, occupies a central place in the plots of published works. This image of the princely capital is one of the main symbols of Ukrainianness, timeliness, belonging to Ukrainian lands. It is observed that chronologically the publications were written in the 1940s , during the stay of the outlined territory in the General Government. Polonization measures of recent years on the eve of the war actualized the problem of the cultural and educational life of Ukrainians, therefore the publishing activity of the Ukrainian Central Committee played an important educational role. It is demonstrated that Sichinsky’s studies was based on the historiographical works of Polish and Russian historians of the 19th century. Attention is drawn to the fact that their vision of the most ancient period of the history of Kholm, depicted by Volodymyr Sichynskyi, contradicts the concepts of Mykola Dashkevych and Mykhailo Hrushevskyi. The explorations of M. Korduba, which are devoted to the medieval period of the history of the Kholm region and Podlasie, are detailed. It is stated, that they are based on a wide range of sources and prove the connections between diff erent regions of the Ukrainian population within the boundaries of the state formations of Kyivan Rus and the Principality of Galicia–Volhynia.