In addition to teaching, the lecturers of the Department are actively engaged in research. Their efforts are centered around the Department’s research project “Historical relations of Slavic nations with Ukraine and Ukrainians.”Members of the Department specialize in particular issues: history of Poland and Polish-Ukrainian relations (M.H. Krykun, L.O. Zashkilniak), history of Bulgaria, Bulgarian-Ukrainian relations and history of Slavic Studies (V.P. Chorniy), Bulgarian-Ukrainian relations (I. Ye. Shpyk), history of the Czech Republic and Slovakia, relations between Slavic countries, history of Slavonic Studies (M. M. Kril), the formation of nations in Eastern Europe in the 19^th-20^th centiries, relations between Slavic countries in the 19^th – 20^th centuries, history of Russia in the 19-20^th centuries, relations between Slavonic countries, history of Russia in the 19^th – 20^th centuries (T. S. Poleshchuk), Russian-Ukrainian relations in the 19^th century, history of Slavic Studies (N. O. Leshkovych),policy of the British government in Central and Eastern Europe in the early 20^th century (R. B. Syrota), historical memory and the formation of modern Ukrainian identity within the cultural realm between Poland and Russia in the late 19^th – early 20^th century (I. I. Matsevko). Other issues of national history of Slavic nations are also being studied. The lecturers of the Department have authored several monographs on the history of Bulgaria, Poland, Slovakia, the Slavonic nations of the Habsburg monarchy, Slavonic and world historiography, as well as methodology of history.

In 2001-2006, Prof. L.O. Zashkilniak served as a co-supervisor of the international research project “The multicultural historical environment of Lviv in the 19^th and 20^th centuries”. As a result of the project five collections of papers have been published. In 2007-2011, the research project “History – Mentality – Identity. The Role of History and Historians in the Formation of Ukrainian and Polish National Consciousness in the 19^th and 20^th centuries” (jointly supervised by L.O. Zashkilniak) is to be completed.

Together with the Institute for Historical Research of Ivan Franko National University of Lviv the Department conducts a regular (twice a month) workshop “History and Historiography of Central and Eastern Europe.” The Department is an active participant of both editorial and scientific activities.

Since 1988, the Institute for Slavonic Studies (headed by Docent V.P. Chorniy) and the Centre for Historical Polish Studies (headed by Prof. L.O. Zashkilniak) have been functioning within the Department. The editorial board of the journal “Проблеми слов’янознавства” has been working at the Department since 1970. In 2005, the 55^th issues of the journal appeared. Lecturers of the Department of Slavic History and the Department of Slavic Philology have been jointly organizing annual international colloquia for Slavic Studies since 1992. The Department hosted the all-Union conference for Slavic studies (1973), the international scientific conference dedicated to the 1300^th anniversary of Bulgaria (1981), a joint symposium of Ukrainian and Bulgarian historians (1989) and international workshops (1988-1997) dedicated to the memory of Prof. D.L. Pokhylevych (the materials of the last workshop were published asa separate volume), as well as other research forums.