title: The tradition of Ukrainian dumas in the focus of folklore science at the beginning of the 20th Century: Kyiv scientific school
abstract: The article analyzes the scientific material of Ivan Erofeiv's researches on the tradition of Ukrainian Dumas, characterizes the methodology, peculiarities of work with the source base, with variant material, classification by main motifs, etc. The focus is on the second most important folkloristic research of the scientist “Crimea in the Little Russian folk poetry of the XVI-XVII centuries, mainly in Dumas”, dedicated to the memory of Professor Volodymyr Antonovych. The research activity of the
journal: Vìsnik Marìupolʹsʹkogo deržavnogo unìversitetu Serìâ Fìlologìâ