The Collection of scientific works is devoted to theoretical and methodological principles of native biographical science as a special historical discipline, problems, tendecies and perspectives for the development of national and world biographical study and biobibliography. The Collection of scientific papers is devoted to the study of history and theory of Ukrainian biography, terminology of biographical studies, it also examines modern models of biographical reconstructions, forms and genres of historical and biographical discourse, thematic data of poorly or insufficiently studied personalities of the Ukrainian history, science and culture, scientific researches, biographies of non-ordinary persons.