HYRYCH Ya. M. Historical and cultural heritage of Ukraine–Russia border: the experience of three conferences.

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    The article analyses the quality and quantity of three International scientific conferences devoted to the study of relationships, interaction and cultural heritage of Dnieper left bank, Kursk Poseym'ya and Slobozhanshchina (2011 – 2013)

    During 2011 - 2013 Department of History of Oleksandr Dovzenko Hlukhiv National Pedagogical University held three conferences devoted to the study of interaction, relationships and historical and cultural heritage of the Left Bank Dnieper, Kursk Poseym'ya and Slobozhanshchina. The results of the researchers regularly been published in collections of conference proceedings. Traditionally strong thematic blocks were on topical issues of Slavonic Studies (Polish Studies), historiography and source, history Cossack Hetmanate, regional studies and cross-border cooperation. On the pages of collection for three years published articles 200 authors (including theses of 47 students, 60 teachers of high schools, 27 graduate students and three doctoral students, including 12 doctors, 32 associate professors, 48 PhDs), representing 12 regions of Ukraine and 2 foreign countries (20 Russians and 3 Belarusians). Arguably, scientific events managed to grow conference with some international participation to events visible at the regional and the international scientific level. Put organizers the task of establishing inter-university communication performed, there was a popularization of science among students, and actually in Hlukhiv University as one of the new centers of historical education

    Notable were content-information blocks dedicated to the country's history (the period Hetmanate, Ukrainian Revolution, World War II), the historical regionalistics (Ukrainian-Russian border), source criticism, local history, ethnology, history of everyday life, military history. The researchers include Ukraine among the countries that suffered the most during the Second World War. On its territory there were active hostilities, each of the warring parties during the retreat resorted to the tactics of "scorched earth" for some time the Germans and their allies managed to brutal occupation regime. Roman Mykhalchuk reviewed the implementation of policies of racial Third Reich, including the introduction of discriminatory measures against persons of Jewish origin. In materials Rivne region, which was at the center of the occupation Reichskommissariat Ukraine, highlights the legal status of Jews (introduced registration and special badges for identification longer curfew, restrictions on freedom of movement and the right to medical care, participation in forced labor, lack of labor books, confiscation real estate, professional, religious and everyday discrimination, etc.) that have become social outcasts and Nazis among other nations.

Keywords: Hlukhiv, Conference, digest, regional representators, participant, history, inter-regional cooperation , cultural heritage, interaction