<b>Dmytro Sygarevych (1868–1914) and his memoirs “Mykhailo Komarov as a public figure” in the context of Hanna Shvydko’s work on Komarov</b>

Is the actualization of the figure of Dmytro Syharevych and his memoirs “Mykhailo Komarov as a public figure” (1914) in the context of historical and biographical studies of the famous scholar-historian H. K. Shvydko. Are historical-biographical, historical-systemic, as well as historiographical and source analysis. Are the determination of Кomarov studies as one of the priority directions in the work of H. K. Shvydko; consideration of the image of D. D. Syharevych – an associate of M. F. Komarov – in modern Ukrainian historiography; carrying out a source analysis of the memoirs of D. D. Syharevych “Mykhailo Komarov as a public figure” and their archeographic actualization. In modern Ukrainian historiography, a new promising direction has been formed – Кomarov studies, in the formation of which a significant contribution was made by H. K. Shvydko. The scholar-historian deepened her understanding of the multifaceted activities of M. F. Komarov at the all-Ukrainian and regional levels, focused special attention on the regional aspects of his service to the Ukrainian cause at the institutional and personal levels. The talented Ukrainian figure D. D. Syharevych, whose important stages of life are connected with Odesa and the Dnipro region, occupied a prominent place in the Hromadiv and Prosvityan circles of M. F. Komarov’s like-minded people. The name of D. D. Syharevych was mentioned and partially studied in scientific articles, monographs, local history essays, including in the work of H. K. Shvydko. The most thorough information about this Ukrainian figure belongs to Odesa historian O. E. Muzychko. D. D. Syharevych used his intellectual flair in his memoirs about M. F. Komarov. D. D. Syharevych’s meaningful and reliable publication added important touches to the personal portrait of M. F. Komarov as a public figure activist, especially in the period of his activity in the Odesa community from the end of the 1880s to 1905, shed additional light on some features of the functioning of the community environment, etc. In the possibility of using the material in scientific studies and the educational process. In determining the contribution of H. K. Shvydko to the formation of Komarov studies, in the historiographical and archeographical updating of the figure of D. D. Sygarevich. Article type: review and archeographic.