Ukrainian addresses in Istanbul in the context of the activities of the «Istanbul Platform» in the interwar period. (20-30s of the XX century).

Abstract

The task of scientific research. In the mid-1990s, on the initiative of O. Pelenska, a diplomat and researcher of Ukrainian political emigration in the interwar Czechoslovak Republic, the project «Ukrainian addresses in Prague» began, thanks to which Ukrainian addresses where people lived were found and restored step by step on maps of Czech cities, representatives of the Ukrainian political emigration conducted their public and intelligence activities. The author of this article had the honor of being included in the specified project through address and biographical additions. Meanwhile, archival research and novels of the writer and post-graduate student of Kamianets-Podilskyi National University named after I. Ohienko of Lora Pidhirna on the activities of political emigration and Ukrainian exile special services in the Middle East. «Istanbul Platform» resolutely «demanded» Ukrainian addresses of the DC of the Ukrainian Peopleʼs Republic.

The research methodology and scientific approaches of intelligence are based on the principles of historicism, integrity, objectivity, concrete-historical approach, comprehensiveness, systematicity, as well as the use of analysis, synthesis, historical-genetic, historical-typological, problem-chronological and historical-comparative methods.

The main results of the research carried out. The article provides a factual list of Ukrainian addresses in the city of Istanbul in the context of the activities of the «Istanbul Platform» in the 1920s and 1930s.

Originality and practical significance. Locational geographical expansion of the boundaries of the "Ukrainian emigration addresses" project.