CULTURAL AND HISTORICAL HERITAGE OF YA. V. ABRAMOV AS AN OBJECT OF NEW LOCAL HISTORY

Abstract

The outstanding social and literary figure of the last decades of 19th and of early 20th century's Russia, Ya. V. Abramov (1858 -1906) has been biographically and creatively connected to the Stavropol region and to the North Caucasus in general. As a novelist, essayist, philosopher, sociologist, literary critic, journalist, statistician and educator, he had a great influence on social and cultural development of the country and his «minor homeland». Study of cultural and historical heritage of the thinker and writer, who has been in disgrace until recently, in a new paradigm of local history allows to get into the essence of microsocial processes in the context of which his «grand cultural work» was performed. In the process of heuristic activity, documentary material is identified, forms and methods of scientific study of biography, ideological evolution and the creative process of Ya. V. Abramov are perfected. Problems of regionalism and local history are considered in the process of activity designing for a microcommunity regarded as an association of people that defines strategic objectives in the actualization of theoretical and artistic heritage of Ya. V. Abramov.