Institutions of the local history movement in the Crimea in the 1920s and early 1930s.

Based on the synthesis of archival and little-known published sources the history of the Society for the Study of the Crimea - one of the most authoritative scientific public organizations Crimean studies 20s - early 30s of XX century is recreated. The contribution of society members to the development of historical and local history research is described. For historians, historians of science, historiographers, bibliographers, Crimean historians.