THE MATERIALS FOR THE PROSOPOGRAPHIC PORTRAIT OF THE SOKALSKI FAMILY IN THE COLLECTIONS OF THE ELECTRONIC REPOSITORY OF V.N. KARAZIN KHARKIV NATIONAL UNIVERSITY

The purpose of the article is the analysis of corpus of archival documents from the electronic repository of V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, which makes the opportunity to reconstruct the main events of the personal and professional life of members of the famous Ukrainian Sokalski family. The main objectives of the study are the classification of sources by categories and their characteristic with brief comments on each particular person. The scientific novelty of the research, for its part, is the realization of the potential of the archival heuristic searches made by the author in order to create a complex prosographic portrait of the Sokalsi family. In addition, the author focuses on previously little-known archival materials for the biography of the Sokalsi family. In the conclusions the author highlights the significant information content of the sources from the collections of the institutional digital archive, which makes it possible to restore and present some stories of the biography and scientific activities of members of the Sokalski family. As a perspective for further researches on this topic, the author proposes to attract the archival documents from the funds of other archives of Ukraine