The existing scientific studies on the Kharkiv philological school mainly contain the results of the analysis of the scientific tradition in the aspect of studying the figure of its founder A. Potebnya and a galaxy of scientists who continued his directions in linguistics in order to analyze their scientific achievements and learning activities. Summary of results and conclusions of such works in the article made it possible to identify the dominant features of the scientific school of Kharkiv linguists, uniting representatives of the Kharkiv linguistic traditions and scientific achievements into a single event in the history of Ukrainian and world linguistics and to emit Kharkiv philological school among other creative teams of philologists from different generations. Since the forerunner of Kharkiv philological school and finishing its current state and prospects it was traced the features that characterize the way of development of scientific thought in the field of linguistics in Kharkiv, among which the main ones are openness, broad philological orientation, a close connection with the practical activity, dynamism.