ХАРКІВ: ВІДОМИЙ І НЕЗНАНИЙ

The article deals with the unique personality of one of the most cited linguists of our time, doctor of Philology, professor Lidiia Andriivna Lysychenko, who united in herself boundless love to her "Little Fatherland" – the Kharkiv region with love to her native country, people and, finally, to the native City. This is quite true in connection with the 90th anniversary of this woman. The author investigates the ancient names and several versions of the history of one of the geocultural, geopolitical centers of Eastern Europe – the city of Kharkiv. Kharkiv region is an extremely ancient ethnic-cultural space of modern Ukraine, that has had the millennia of cultural development, which dates back to the Trypillian era, the Cimmerian civilization. So, it is proved on a broad etymological-historical background that ethnoprosthesis around Kharkiv was always densely populated in ancient times, the territory of the present-day metropolis was never free from settlers, nomads. Kharkiv region always gave life, attracted people, was the center of ancient polyculture.