The fund 350 (the archives of the Horynovych family) in the Institute of Manuscript of Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine: founders, structure, review of the documents

Abstract

The fund 350 was formed from various documents of the Horynovych family which came to Institute of Manuscript of VNLU in 1996–2006. The main founder was Mykhailo Volodymyrovych Horynovych (1927–2016), born in the Zabirya village. After finishing the primary seven-class school he served in the Kyiv Artlillery Military School. After fi nishing the high school for working youth in 1951 he entered the mining faculty of the Kyiv Politechnical Institute, later worked in the Donbas coal pits, occupied different working positions, connected with coal mining or mine investigations, explosion works and safety arrangements. After retiring he devoted himself to some social activities, studied the history of his family. He collected and presented to the Institute of Manuscript of VNLU the archives of his parents – Volodymyr Mykolaiovych Horynovych (1900–1979) and Nina Semenivna Haievska (1898–1987), the first teachers of Zabirya of the Soviet period of 1924–1939. After the World War II Volodymyr Horynovych worked at the Kyiv Polishing-Grinding Mill while Nina Haievska returned to teaching in the Zabirya school. The structure of the fund reflects the relations of the main founder of the archives and other members of the Horynovych family. The fund contains biographical documents of three generations of the family, historical documents, the notes on the local lore, compiled by Volodymyr Horynovych, various writings and memoires of Nina Haievska. The correspondence of the members of the Horynovych family, the letters of the former classmates of Nina Haievska at the Kyiv A. V. Zhekulina Gymnasium, of her own pupils, friends and other persons make a signifi cant part of the fund. There are also numerous photographs and other collection materials.