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(painting, sculpture and architecture), in

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. The school is part of the complex that also includes schools of

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and

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. It is located adjoining a historic park overlooking the southern end of Babi Yar. The school accepts students from 5th grade through to and including 12th grade.

History

The school was established on August 12, 1937, and was originally located at 2 Volodymyrska Street, Kyiv. The designer and builder of the new school building was the architect

Joseph Karakis Joseph Karakis (or ''Iosif Karakys''; uk, Йо́сип Ю́лійович Кара́кіс; 29 May 1902 – 23 February 1988) was a Ukrainians, Ukrainian Soviet Union, Soviet architect, urban planner, Painting, painter and teacher, and one of ...

. At the time, this was the only art school building and institute of its type in the Soviet Union. The first pupils graduated on 29 June 1940. Due to the threat of war with Germany, all graduates from this class as well as directors of the school were conscripted into the

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and sent to the Eastern Front. The school was vacant until 1944 when the building was taken over by the

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, and the school moved to new premises. Today, the school is located in 4 Zhambyl Zhabayuly Street, Kyiv.

Notable alumni

There are many notable artists among its graduates, including: *

Christina Katrakis Christina Katrakis is an International coordinator and curator, writer, artist, Ambassador for the Foundation for United Nations SDG, in charge of the Humanitarian Aid Base FFUNSDG-HELP.UA in Vorokhta, Ukraine as an Ambassador for International ...

* Peter Kravchenko * Oleg Kulik * Kost Lavro *

Yuri Makoveychuk Yuri Makoveychuk ( uk, Юрій Маковейчук, born 1961) is an artist-painter and filmmaker working in the rare field of mannequin animation. Biography Makoveychuk was born in Kyiv, Ukraine in 1961. He moved to Philadelphia in 1990, and l ...

Alina Panova Alina Panova (full name Alina Panova-Marasovich, born Alina Vaksman in Kiev, Ukraine) is a Ukrainian-American film and stage costume designer and producer. Biography Panova was born in Kiev, Ukraine, in 1961. She studied art at the Shevchenko S ...

* Les Podervyansky * Vlada Ralko * Arsen Savadov *

Mikhail Turovsky Mykhaylo Turovsky ( uk, Михайло Туровський, also Mikhail Turovsky; born in 1933 in Kyiv, in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union) is an American and Ukrainian artist- painter, and writer-aphorist, resident in New York City since 1 ...

Roman Turovsky Roman Turovsky-Savchuk (Ukrainian: Роман Туровський-Савчук) is an American artist-painter, photographer and videoinstallation artist, as well as a lutenist-composer,

* Glib Vysheslavsky * Nicholas Zalevsky * Galyna Zubchenko

References

External links

The school's website
Educational institutions established in 1937 Schools in Kyiv 1937 establishments in Ukraine Gymnasiums in Ukraine Arts organizations established in 1937 Art schools in Ukraine {{Ukraine-school-stub