The Kyiv City Teacher's House () also known as the Central Council House () is a historical building located at 57 Volodymyrska Street, in

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. The building is located next to the "Yellow Building" of

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and the Presidium Building of

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. Currently, it is mainly occupied by the Ukrainian Trade Union of workers of Education and Science in

. It also houses the Pedagogical museum, the museum of Ukrainian Revolution (1917-1920), the State Pedagogical and Science Library of Sukhomlynsky, and the Cultural Center "Kyianochka". Both museums are located on the second floor. The building was constructed during the Imperial era in 1909-1911 by Pavlo Alyoshyn.

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Originally, the building was built in 1912 for the Kyiv Pedagogical Museum that existed since 1901 and was located until 1913 in a building of the

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. In 1917 the museum was liquidated, and the building quartered the

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from March 17, 1917 until April 29, 1918. In August 1917 here took place All Ukrainian teachers Congresses and on 7 November 1917 here was established the Ukrainian Academy of Pedagogical Sciences. In December 1917 the building became a home of the

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. In 1918-19 the building was occupied by the

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. After elimination of Ukrainian government from Kyiv in 1919, the building was used for various administrative institutions until 1925 when it was turned into the Museum of Revolution. In 1938 the building housed the Kyiv branch of Central Lenin Museum until 1982 (moved to the new

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). In 1930s it somewhat changed its appearance and by the design of its original creator Pavlo Alyoshyn it was rebuilt. The Pedagogical museum was revived in 1977 based on the Republican pedagogical exhibition that existed since 1948. In 1982 it finally returned to its original building and is located on the second floor at the south wing. The museum is administrated by the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of Ukraine. The building is a property of Kyiv City. Along with a few municipal offices located there, a part of the building is currently subleased for office space by a set of political, civil, and small business organizations.

"Ukrainian Club" meeting place

The ''Ukrainian Club'' (), was a union of national public figures of

headed by

Mykola Lysenko Mykola Vitaliiovych Lysenko (; 22 March 1842 – 6 November 1912) was a Ukrainian composer, pianist, conductor and ethnomusicologist of the late Romantic period. In his time he was the central figure of Ukrainian music, with an ''oeuvre'' tha ...

. The club's meetings were attended by the Ukrainian writers

Ivan Nechuy-Levytsky Ivan Semenovych Nechuy-Levytsky (born Levytsky; – 2 April 1918) was a well-known Ukrainian writer. Biography Ivan Nechuy-Levytsky was born on to the family of a peasant priest in Stebliv (Cherkasy Oblast in central Ukraine). In 1847 he en ...

Lesya Ukrainka Lesya Ukrainka (, ; born Larysa Petrivna Kosach, ; – ) was one of Ukrainian literature's foremost writers, best known for her poems and plays. She was also an active political, civil, and feminist activist. Among her best-known works are ...

, her mother

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, Maxim Rylsky - then a gymnasium pupil, and the actors Mariya Zankovetska and Mykola Sadovsky. In addition,

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, Panas Myrny, and

Ivan Franko Ivan Yakovych Franko (, ; 27 August 1856 – 28 May 1916) was a Ukrainian poet, writer, social and literary critic, journalist, translator, economist, political activist, doctor of philosophy, ethnographer, and the author of the first d ...

visited the club during their stays in Kyiv. In 1912, the ''

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'' had closed the Ukrainian Club, accusing it of subversive activity. But soon, another Ukrainian society, ''Rodyna'', was arranged in the same building where the former Ukrainian Club met. When the city's administration gave permission to organize the ''Rodyna'' club, it was assumed that the stress mark was on the first syllable meant motherland, ''Rodina''. However, the members of the club always called it ''Rodyna'' (translated as ''family'' in Ukrainian).

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External links

Building of Pedagogical Museum at Kiev's WEK encyclopedia

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