Abstract
The purpose of the article is to clarify the main imperatives of fire safety in the practical activities of the opposition aristocratic front of the Northern Left-Bank Ukraine with the help of little-known and little-studied historical sources, some of which are being introduced in to scientific circulation for the first time. Research methodology. In preparing the article, a general scientific (methods of synthesis and analysis; deduction and induction; methods of periodization, generalization; descriptive method) and a special historical (problem-chronological methods, content analysis) research methodology was used, which generally ensured the achievement of the tasks set in the work. The scientific novelty of the publication lies in the fact that for the first time in Ukrainian historical science, the policy of the zemstvo liberal movement of northern Ukraine in the field of fire safety is highlighted. Conclusions. The issue of fire safety in the system of imperatives of the social policy of the zemstvo liberal movement in the north of Left-Bank Ukraine in the 60s-80s of the 19th century. occupied not the last place. Analysis of historical sources, some of which are being introduced into scientific circulation for the first time, shows that the policy of the opposition aristocratic front in the specified field has undergone a path of evolution: from the crystallization of a complex of administrative and organizational principles of fire safety, centralized provision of means of combating disaster to the formation of a systemic policy in the field. The opposition aristocratic front of the Northern Left Bank successfully combined in its fire safety policy instruments of different nature - administrative, financial and economic and scientific and technological, which allowed the liberals to help the peasantry achieve noticeable changes in the fight against fire excesses.