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The article deals with the academic research of the founders of the Kyiv philosophical school S. Krymskyi and V. Horskyi on the history of philosophical thought and culture of the Kyivan Rus as an important page of revival in the H. S. Skovoroda Institute of Philosophy in the late 1950s – 1980s of interrupted by the Stalinist regime studies on the history of philosophy of Ukraine. These studies, in particular the ones of S. Krymskyi and V. Horskyi in the 1980s – 2000s, were resumed at the beginning of the Khrushchev "thaw" era by the generation of philosophers of the sixties of the Ukrainian SSR and became the object of attention of their authors in independent Ukraine in the pilot innovative projects on the oral history of philosophy. The autobiographical reconstructions of S. Krymskyi and V. Horskyi initiated by T. Chaika in the ptoject "The Philosophers' Oral Histories", as well as more than ten years of interviews of the first of them to the all-ukrainian newspaper "Day", became important alternative sources of post-Soviet – uncensored, historical and philosophical reproduction of the formation of the history of philosophy of Ukraine as an academic discipline in the 20th century. Both of them interpreted there in an autobiographical way their own more than thirty years of "Kyivan Rus" studies as their two leading initiators in the Kyiv philosophical school. They revealed their original visions of the "philosophical culture" of Kyivan Rus in the light of the high appreciation of its "spiritual luminaries" as embodiments of Christian virtues (V. Horskyi) and "Sophianess" of Ukrainian culture since the times of Kyivan Rus as a subject of "European culture of the Greco-Slavic type" (S. Krymskyi). They jointly emphasized the exceptional role in their scholar and personal development of ethical principles and moral ideals of this stage of ancient Ukrainian culture as an important source and model of socio-cultural progress of Ukraine.