Institute of Urban History

Oral history

LIST OF ORAL HISTORICAL AND ETHNOGRAPHIC EXPEDITIONS, ORGANIZED BY BERDYANK BRANCH OF ZAPORIZHZHYA SCHOLARLY SOCIETY OF YAKOV PAVLOVYCH NOVYTSKYI IN 2006-2011

The aim of the projects was in formation and introduction to the scientific use of new complexes of sources about urbanization processes of Southern Ukraine, and in comparing these complexes with the written sources and preparation of archaeographical publications.

Berdyansk Boy’s Gymnasium (1901 – 1919 years) / I.I. Lyman, V.M. Konstantinova // Materials from the history of Berdyansk State Pedagogical University. Volume II. –– K.: «Osvita Ukrainy», 2007. –– 631 p.

Berdyansk Pedagogical Courses And Pedagogical College (1920 – 1935 years) / I.I. Lyman, V.M. Konstantinova // Materials from the history of Berdyansk State Pedagogical University. Volume III. — K.: «Osvita Ukrainy», 2008. — 569 p.

Berdyansk Institute of Social Education. Pedagogical Institute. Teaching Institute (1932 – 1953 years) / V.M. Konstantinova, I.I. Lyman // Materials from the history of Berdyansk State Pedagogical University. Volume IV. — K.: «Osvita Ukrainy», 2009. — 782 p.

Chop V.M., Lyman I.I. “Free Berdyansk”: the town in times of the anarchist social experiment (1918 – 1921 years). — Zaporizhzhya: “Tandem – U”, 2007. — 478 p.

Transformations of religiosity in circumstances of a multicultural region (materials of archeographical expeditions in the Northern Pryazovya) / I. Lyman. — Zaporizhzhya: AA Tandem, 2011. — 360 p.

Peasants and a city: the phenomenon of urbanization processes in perception of peasant tradition (materials of historical and archaeographical expeditions in Northern Pryazovia) / Compiled by V. Konstantinova. — Kyiv, 2012. — 416 p.

Oral History of Holodomor 1932-1933 Years in the Northern Pryazovya. Berdyansk Measuring / Authors: I.I. Lyman, V.M. Konstantinova. — Zaporizhzhya: AA Tandem, 2009. — 302 p.

Oral history of the Famine of 1932-1933 in Northern Pryazovia: materials of the historical and archaeological expeditions / Compiler: V.M. Konstantinova. ─ Zaporizhzhia: "AA Tandem", 2009. ─ 532 p.

Historians and war

During the last week of April 2026, Berdiansk State Pedagogical University hosted History Week. As part of the event, meetings were arranged with historians from Kyiv, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia, who shared their stories.