Life and creative connections of Dmytro Ivanovych Yavornytskiy with Elizabet region

Vital and creative contacts of Dmytro Ivanovych Yavornytskiy with the inhabitants of modern territory of Kirovohrad are followed down in the article. This research is the first try to analyze systematically the contacts of D. Yavornytskiy with intellectual circles of Elizabethgrad. The documentary basis of the article is the epistolary heritage of famous historian. Numerous not well-known facts from the famous scientist's life are covered in the research. D. Yavornytskiy's contacts can be classified as personal contacts, correspondence with coryphaeus of the theatre: M. Kropyvnytskiy and P.Saksaganskiy, contacts with regional ethnographers, educational workers, scientists. Specifically the facts of long-time staying of Yavornytskiy on the territory of modern Kirovohrad in 1899 wasshown. The correspondence with the priest O. Leusov allowed to find the fact of probable purchase of the estate in the village of Vlasivka (Kirovohrad region). The author researched the materials of discussion between D. Yavornyskiy and V. Yastrebov, from the journal «Kyiv Old Times» about the third volume of «The History of Zaporizian Cossacks.» The author also used the poetical heritage of Yavornytskiy which allowed to define the attitude of the historian to the personalities of Bohdan Khmelnytskiy, Taras Shevchenko and Ukrainian theatre actors from M. Kropyvnytskiy's group.