Correspondence between Ivan Shovgeniv and Mykyta Shapoval.

Research aim. The purpose of the article is to publish the correspondence between the Ukrainian scientist Ivan Afanasovich Shovgeniv (1874–1943) and the famous Ukrainian political and public figure Mykyta Yukhymovych Shapoval (1882–1932) and to clarify its information potential. These letters were deposited in the personal fund "Shapoval Mykyta Yukhymovych (1882–1932) – political and statesman, member of the Central Committee of the Ukrainian Party of Socialist Revolutionaries, Minister of Post and Telegraph of the UNR (Ukrainian People's Republic), Minister of Land Affairs of the UNR Directory, Doctor of Sociology of the Ukrainian Sociological Institute in Prague, Ukrainian Husbandry Academy in Poděbrady" (F. 3563), which is stored in the Central State Archive of the Higher Authorities and Administration of Ukraine. Methodology of the research. Based on the principles of scientific objectivity, historicism, and archival heuristics. The methods of source analysis and synthesis, biographical, and prosopographic were used. The scientific novelty. For the first time, the little-known correspondence between I. Shovgeniv and M. Shapoval, which chronologically covers the period from 1921 to 1925, has been published and brought into scientific circulation. The analysis of the letters helped clarify some biographical moments of I. Shovgeniv's life in emigration and the problems that the Ukrainian Husbandry Academy in Poděbrady encountered in its activities. Conclusions. It has been established that the complex of correspondence between I. Shovgeniv and M. Shapoval has a small volume. The subject matter and information potential of the correspondence have been determined. The letters are mostly of a business nature. The main value of the correspondence as a historical source is in highlighting the issues of the activities of the Ukrainian Husbandry Academy. The significance of the epistles for the study of the emigrant life of Ukrainian politicians, intelligentsia, and students in Czechoslovakia in the 1920s is also revealed.