Informativity and Retrospectivity of the Second World War Technical and Graphic Documents in Ukrainian Archives

Purpose: The purpose of the research is to reveal the informational possibilities and retrospectivity of document arrays of technical and graphic sources of the Second World War in Ukrainian archives. Methods: analysis, synthesis, formalization, generalization, classification, systematization, retrospective. Results: The article outlines the History of Science methodological paradigms in Western European and non-Western traditions of investigating historical array of technical and graphic sources in Ukrainian archives. The informative potential of technical and graphic documents which are stored in the archival funds of Ukraine has been analysed in the article. Such formal features of this type documents as specificity of information coding, its completeness, peculiarities of use and storage on various material types of media have been considered. The general scientific, special approaches to the study of the content of the archival documents of technical and graphic nature from the point of view of source criticism methodology have been given. It has been highlighted that the conditions of storage and processing of historical sources of this type require a special approach and knowledge for archivists, source critics and historians. The information importance, significance and role in retrospective modeling and formation of the generalized historical picture of the Second World War have been defined.