The history of national local lore is an inexhaustible source of research. This is eloquently evidenced by the creative heritage of the outstanding geographer, local historian, bibliographer, Professor Kost Volodymyrovych Dubniak (1890-1948). Studying his contribution to the development of agricultural science, the researcher has found archival materials that significantly supplemented the biography of the scientist and his works on the formation of Ukrainian local lore.

The researcher carries out a historical and scientific analysis of the main creative works of Professor K.V. Dubniak on the formation and development of Ukrainian local lore, economic geography, development of branch terminology. The source base of the study covers a wide range of published and unpublished materials. It is based on archival documents and scientific works of the scientist. For the first time the researcher investigated Dubniak’s creative contribution in the development of the Ukrainian Committee of Local Lore, the Ukrainian Research Institute of Geography and Cartography; deepening and supplementing biographical information related to active pedagogical activity, publishing work in the journal «Local Lore». She proved the priority of the scientist in the formation of Ukrainian local lore; development of educational programs for the preparation of pupils and students of various forms of education; enhancement of agricultural bibliographic case of local lore in the 20-30's of the twentieth century.

The novelty of Dubniak’s scientific studies in the 20–30s of the 20th century was to substantiate his own understanding of economic geography. It studies the economic region or even the state as separate components of the world economy, and the concept of «edge» was interpreted as a territorial formation (district), the study of which reveals general patterns of society and nature and its impact on economic human life. The scientist claimed that local lore work would become a powerful driver of state and economic development if large sections of the population were involved in it.

In the mid-1920's K.V. Dubniak is gaining high prestige in the scientific community as a theorist of «industrial local lore». He first introduced this concept into scientific circulation at the First All-Ukrainian Conference of Local Lore on May 28–31, 1925. Prof. K.V. Dubniak provided local lore and geographical studies in the development of the national educational system. An important methodological task for the scientist was the development of educational programs to study the geography, history, nature and ethnography of the native land. Active participant in professional discussions on the structure of textbooks, program formation, etc. The result of his methodological work became the course of geography, built on a clear basis of local lore. The researcher proved that K.V. Dubniak is a methodologist of school local lore.

The content analysis of the Dubniak’s creative work proved that the theoretical foundations of local lore as a separate science in the structure of Ukrainian geography were substantiated in more than 30 author's scientific publications in 1921–1928. During this time, he published about 200 geographical reviews.

1. Dubniak, K. (1931). Heohrafiia Robitna knyzhka dlia 5 roku navchannia [Geography. Workbook for 5 years of study]. Kharkiv: Radianska shkola. [in Ukrainian]
2. Dubniak, K. (1930). Heohrafiia: pidruch. dlia V roku navchannia [Geography: textbook for V year of study]. Kharkiv: DVU [in Ukrainian]
3. Dubniak, K. (1923). V spravi heohrafichnoi osvity v Ukraini [In the field of geographical education in Ukraine]. Visty [News], 151, 3. [in Ukrainian]
4. Dubniak, K. (1927). Vyvchennia produktyvnykh syl i kraieznavstvo [Study of productive forces and local lore]. Kraieznavstvo – Local Lore, 1, 5–9. [in Ukrainian]
5. Dubniak, K. (1923). Heohrafichna osvita v Ukraini [Geographical education in Ukraine]. Bolshevik (Kiev), 283, 6. [in Ukrainian]
6. Dubniak, K. (1925). Do kraieznavchoi konferentsii [Before the local history conference]. Visty VUTsVK – News of the All-Ukrainian Central Executive Committee, 121, 1. [in Ukrainian]
7. Dubniak, K. (1923). Do ukrainizatsii shkoly [Before the Ukrainianization of the school]. Visty VUTsVK – News of the All-Ukrainian Central Executive Committee, 202, 2–4. [in Ukrainian]
8. Dubniak K. Dosiahnennia ukrainskoi nauky v haluzi bibliohrafii, zokrema pryrodoznavchoi [Achievements of Ukrainian science in the field of bibliography, in particular natural science]. Visnyk pryrodoznavstva [Bulletin of Natural Sciences] 5–6, 301–305. [in Ukrainian]
9. Dubniak, K. (1925). Kraieznavstvo na Ukraini, yoho mynule y sohochasni zavdannia, koly buduietsia nove zhyttia [Local lore in Ukraine, its past and present tasks when building a new life]. Kultura i pobut [Сulture and Life], 5, 2–3. [in Ukrainian]
10. Dubniak, K. (1930). Materialy do metodolohii heohrafii: (bibliohr. pokazhch. holovnishoi l-ry ukr. ta ros. movamy) [Materials for the methodology of geography: (bibliographic index of the main l-ry in Ukrainian and Russian languages)]. Zapysky Ukrainskoho naukovo-doslidnoho instytutu heohrafii ta kartohrafii [Notes of the Ukrainian Research Institute of Geography and Cartography], 2, 242–253. [in Ukrainian]
11. Dubniak, K. (1922a). Materiialy do vyvchennia Poltavshchyny. Bibliohrafichnyi pokazhchyk literatury [Materials for the study of Poltava region. Bibliographic index of literature]. Khoziaistvo Poltavshchyny [Economy of Poltava region], 4–5, 12–15. [in Ukrainian]
12. Dubniak, K. (1922b). 6, 16–18. [in Ukrainian]
13. Dubniak, K. (1922c). 7, 76–79. [in Ukrainian]
14. Dubniak, K. (1927). Na shliakhu rozvytku kraieznavstva [On the way to the development of local lore]. Kultura i pobut [Culture and Life], 35, 1– 2. [in Ukrainian]
15. Dubnyak, K. (1926). Novy`e puti kraevednoj raboty [New ways of local lore work]. Izvestiya [Notifications], 165, 4. [in Russian]
16. Dubniak, K. (1919). Ohliad syl ukrainskoho vchytelstva m. Poltavy [Review of the forces of Ukrainian teachers in Poltava]. Ridne slovo [Native Word], 7. 2. [in Ukrainian]
17. Dubniak, K. (1928). Pidvyshchennia vrozhainosti i kraieznavstvo [Increasing yields and local lore]. Kraieznavstvo [Local Lore], 6/10, 1–4. [in Ukrainian]
18. Dubniak, K. (1925). Prohrama kraieznavstva dlia kursiv pedahohichnoi perepidhotovky vchytelstva [Local lore program for pedagogical retraining courses for teachers]. Perepidhotovka vchytelstva Ukrainy [Retraining of Ukrainian teachers], 165–176. [in Ukrainian]
19. Dubniak, K. (1927). Raionuvannia y kraieznavstvo [Zoning and local lore]. Kraieznavstvo [Local Lore], 2, 4–8. [in Ukrainian]
20. Dubniak, K. (1925). Suchasne zavdannia kraieznavstva [The modern task of local lore]. Kultura i pobut [Culture and Life], 33, 5–6. [in Ukrainian]
21. Dubniak, K. (2005). Shcho take kraieznavstvo [What is local lore]. Istoriia ukrainskoi heohrafii [History of Ukrainian Geography], 12, 44–47. [in Ukrainian]
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24. Dubniak, K. (1934). Yak korystuvatysia konturnymy kartamy: metod. porady dlia vchytelia [How to use contour maps: methodical tips for the teacher], 16. [in Ukrainian]
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26. Zahalni pidsumky [General results]. (1925). Bibliotechnyi zhurnal [Library Magazine],3, 22. [in Ukrainian]
27. Zaitsev, D. (1927). Metodyka kraieznavchoi roboty [Methods of local lore work]. Kraieznavstvo – Local Lore, 3, 1–5. [in Ukrainian]
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