EVERYDAY LIFE IN DROHOBYCH TEACHER’S INSTITUTE: A NEW DOCUMENT IN HISTORY (1946–1949)

Summary. The purpose of the article is to publish and analyze an underground document from the Lapayev Archive "Report on Life at the State Teachers’ Institute in Drohobych" (1949) as a source for the history of everyday life at the Drohobych Teachers’ Institute in particular and in Western Ukraine in general. Research methodology – the principles of science, objectivity, historicism, methods of external and internal criticism of sources. The scientific novelty is that for the first time a hitherto unknown document on everyday life at the Drohobych Teachers’ Institute (1949) is introduced into scientific circulation and its analysis is carried out. Conclusions. Thus, the published document ("Report on Life at the State Teachers’ Institute in Drohobych") is an important source for studying the everyday history not only of the Drohobych Institute (1948–1949), but also of the whole of Western Ukraine. It is stored in the Archives of the Center for the Study of the Liberation Movement (Fund 63, Volume 4, Sheet 1‒4). The author of the document is the propaganda officer of the Drohobych OUN supra-district leadership J. Luzhetsky-"Stone" (who in this document signed one of the pseudonyms "5-TR"). The document itself was prepared on August 9, 1949. Although it includes information reports for 1948 – the first half of 1949. Note that the published documents are an important source for a comprehensive study of everyday life Drohobych Institute (1948–1949) in particular and postwar life residents of the Western Ukraine in general. The vocabulary, author’s and editorial features of the sources are preserved in the publication as much as possible. Own and geographical names are given without changes. Only the most obvious grammatical flaws could be corrected. Each document is accompanied by a legend, which indicates the place of storage of the document (name of the archive, fund number, description, case, sheets).