Nataliia Kobylko, Senior Lecturer of the Department of Social and Humanitarian Disciplines of the Faculty №6, Candidate of Philological Sciences, took part in the All-Ukrainian Scientific Conference "Literature and History", organized by Zaporizhia National University. The participants of the event communicated in a virtual space – on the conference page. The wide geography of the researchers confirmed the importance of the topic. Master's degree students, postgraduate students, candidates and doctors of philological, pedagogical and historical sciences presented their scientific research. There were nine sections from Cossack folklore to the interpretation of the Cossacks in world literature. The reports were discussed on the participants' pages.

Nataliia Kobylko presented the report "The Image of Cossack Mamaia: from folklore to modern Ukrainian literature." The author explored the image of the national hero in Oleksandr Ilchenko's bizarre novel " No end to Cossack kin, or Cossack Mamai and a stranger woman" and in the "antidetective" by Kapranov Brothers "The Gray’s Case" and concluded that Cossack Mamai is a symbol of courage, valor, loyalty to the native land and readiness to defend it, even at the cost of one's own life.

A program and a collection of abstracts were published based on the conference materials, and scientific research can be found on the event website.