Scientific sources from history of labour immigration to Ukraine in ХVІІІ–ХІХ c.

The purpose of the reseаrch is to exposure the informative potential of materials of office work from history of labour immigration to Ukraine of representatives of the foreign states during XVIIІ–ХІХ c. which are stored in the record archives of Ukraine and Russian Federation. Research methods were selected in accordance with the set aim on the basis of principles of objectivism and scientific character. The method of analysis and deduction was mainly used for interpretation of the archived sources. The scientific novelty of work closely constrained with the aim, as the printed and archived documents and sources that allow to set the important historical facts of history of Ukraine of ХVІІІ–ХІХ c. to the century that are analysed. Conclusions. Office work sources on foreign immigrants to Ukraine are presented by a complex, which includes reports, orders, messages of the Azov and Novorossiysk governors-general. Documents that arose up in the process of activity of the Nezhin Greek city council and Mariupol Greek court belong to this group. Among the materials of the office there are reports that contain information about the receipt of orders and the status of their implementation, and reports, which reported the consideration of cases, set out proposals, requests etc. The elements that formed the form of these documents in the XVIII–XIX c. are analyzed, their purpose is formulated. The article, on the example of the analysis of materials of office work, gives the characteristic of labor immigration to the Ukrainian lands, the legal status and development of economy of foreign migrants