Socio-economic contribution of cooperative publishing house 'hart' to the development of the publishing industry of Ukraine

The subject of research is: formation; development; structure of governing bodies; operational and economic organization of the material base and consumer interests of buyers of book products of the cooperative publishing house "Hart". The purpose of the scientific article is to reveal and show the socio-economic contribution of the cooperative publishing house "Hart" to the development of the publishing industry of Ukraine based on the sources. Research methods. All components of the research are based on the main principles - scientificity, historicism, objectivity, systematicity, development, priority of concrete truth, pluralism, as well as methods of learning socio-economic processes of social development – analysis, synthesis, problem-chronological, comparative-analytical, archeographic, retrospective, statistical, systematic and complex approach. Work methodology. In the process of researching the specified issues, the main provisions were taken as a basis: the history of Ukraine, economic history and the history of economic thought, the history of the publishing industry, the work of domestic and foreign scientists and practitioners in the specified field. Work results. In the context of the mentioned problems, we investigated the socio-economic contribution of the cooperative publishing house "Hart" to the development of the publishing industry of Ukraine. Field of application of results. The results of this study can be applied in the field of studying the problems of economic history and the history of economic thought, the history of the publishing industry. Conclusions. In the context of our research, we found out that the socio-economic contribution of cooperative publishing houses, in particular "Hart", to the development of the publishing industry of Ukraine, is quite large, since these publishing houses, with their entrepreneurial activity, stimulated the publishing process, thanks to them, the works of famous figures saw the light of day of Ukrainian culture, well-known historians, publicists, whose heritage remains understudied. It should be noted that in Ukraine at the current stage of development of the market economy system, where various forms of ownership dominate, the national publishing industry is in an extremely difficult situation. The search for an effective model for the development of national book publishing is still ongoing, so why not turn to our own historical experience.