LOCAL HISTORY ACTIVITY OF S. D. NOS
The purpose of the article is to establish the main directions of local lore activity of S.D. Nose and systematize his work in this field of humanities. The theoretical and methodological basis of the study lies in the principles of historicism, scientificity and systematics. Biographical, historical-genetic and scientific-metric methods were also used. Scientific novelty of the study is due to the formulation of the problem and the first attempt to determine the place of S.D. Nos in the historical and local lore movement in the Chernihiv region in the second half of the nineteenth century. Conclusions. On the basis of a wide range of updated sources, S.D. Nos' participation in the editorial circle of the official government newspaper «Chernyhovskye hubernskye vedomosty», consisting of local historians, ethnographers, and writers, was established. The facts about evidence of S.D. Nos direct involvement in the project of founding a scientific society of historical and local lore profile in Chernihiv are also given. S.D. Nos' cooperation with the South-Western Division of the Russian Geographical Society is characterized. Articles, notes and documentary publications of the researcher in the journal «Chernihiv Provincial Gazette», «Osnova», «Kievskaya Starina» are analyzed.