VINNYTSIA COUNTY IN THE POST-REFORM PERIOD (1862–1872): FEATURES OF DEMOGRAPHY AND SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

The purpose of the study based on documentary sources is to analyze the demographic and socio-economic status of the Vinnytsia district of Podilsk province in the post-reform period (1862–1872). In the example of a small Podilskyi district, we want to trace the process of development of capitalist relations that originated and began to develop after the abolition of serfdom in the Russian Empire. The research methodology is based on historical, systematic science principles. In the process of writing, comparativehistorical, systemic, and typological methods were used. The scientific novelty is to ask the question of the need to study the socio-economic development and demographic state of Ukrainian lands in the post-reform period of the Russian Empire based on archival sources and documents. Conclusions. Thus, in the post-reform period (1862–1872) the Vinnytsia district of Podilsk province remained an agrarian region where no capitalist transformations occurred. Commodity-monetary relations, which are observed in the studied territory, are local in nature, and apparently arose until 1861. Most of them are related to agricultural production and the sale of grown, rarely processing. The life and everyday activities of the local population have not changed.