Abstract
In this article have been analyzed of the use of the memoirs of the famous domestic actor of theatre and cinema, film director, cinema teacher Evgen Semenovich Matveyev for the studying of the little-known page of the history of Ukrainian cinema and Screen Arts education: the introduction of tuition fees at the USSR and the assistance of Oleksandr Dovzhenko in the life of poor students of the School of Movie Actors at the Kyiv Film Studio of Feature Films, including Evgen Matveyev. The author showed the specificity of the selection and the use of information from his publications of different years.