The author publishes materials on the historiography of Ukrainian pysankas of the end of XIX - 20s of the XX century prepared by S. Shamraiev. The researcher tries to analyze the most famous editions of M. Sumtsov, S. Kulzhynsky, M. Korduba, V. Yastriebov, M. Valuiko, I. Benkovska, R. Tirelova and others, published in Ukraine and abroad. At the beginning of his work, the author notes that before the 1920s, the literature on pysanka was found to consist of small notes that mention the existence of pysankas and the need to study them. To examine them, he used the «chronologically bibliographic method» in combination with an attempt to show how different researchers of pysankas approached the coverage of this or that issue. S. Shamraiev started his research of literature from the authors who covered the origins of the pysankas; he points out that there are two relationships between them: the first one is more scientifically proven and is related to the pagan cult of eggs, the second one is used with Christianity symbolism in their interests. The author also considered the issue of making pysankas, when it was done, at what time, what tools and dyes were used, which decoration technologies exist, etc. He did not ignore the question of the researchers’ coverage of the ornamentation of pysankas, their origin, including the classification, mentioning the suggested researches on this issue by Wenkel, Sumtsov, Korduba, Kulzhinsky and other scientists. Noting that, in general, all studies can be divided into three areas. The purpose of the article is to publish an archival source and familiarize the general public of scientists with it. In the course of the work the author has used the methods of search, systematization and analysis of the obtained data. Processing of the Scientific Archive of the Institute of Archaeology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and other sources allowed the author to state that the problems of historiography of pysankas were studied by different researchers in the 20s of the XX century, is quite diverse and requires proper study and introduction into the scientific circulation

S. Shamraiev; pysanka; archive; sources; historiography of study