The personal archive of S. Y. Paramonov as a source of research of biography and scientific activity of the scientist

In the article we have considered the formation history, structure and documentary composition of a personal archival fonds of a worldwide known Ukrainian scientist S. Y. Paramonov, which is the source base of his scientific biography research. In a publication we have presented documents from the personal S. Y. Paramonov’s fonds, which interprete the underinvestigated sides of his life and scientific activity, we have also listed in the publication Paramonov’s documents which are deposited in other fonds of the Institute of Archival Studies of V. Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine, more specifically in the fonds of the NAS of Ukraine corresponding member A. S. Lazarenko and of the Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology of the NAS of Ukraine. The special attention is paid to the unpublished scientific research of S. Y. Paramonov «Chemogenesis - a new theory of evolution»