Industry sector and problems: the pages of the collection contain various documents and studies from the history of the region, beginning with the settlement of the man, which is due to the geopolitical, communicative, economic and military-strategic importance that the Black Sea region had in history. Established: 2006 Focus and Scope Collection of «Chornomors’ka mynuvshyna» is the transactions of Department of Cossack History in the South of Ukraine. A department created in 2000 as a branch of research institute of Cossacks of Institute of history of Ukraine of national academy of sciences of Ukraine on the base of the department of History of Odesa I. Mechnykov national university. The collective of Department develops the subject, related to history of the Cossacks on the South Ukraine and, in particular, in a Black sea region. At the same time on the pages of collection various documents and researches from history of edge are published, since settling by people, that is conditioned by that geopolitical, kommunikativ, economic and military-strategic which was had by a Black sea region in history. On the pages of collection of «Chornomors’ka mynuvshyna» the articles of scientific are printed, the actual questions of history of South Ukraine and history of Ukrainian the Cossacks are lighted.