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New Building of the Theological Seminary, 1861-1865. Preservation #1673 | FotoOriginally
it was rectangular in plan
with a projection from the eastward, where the Ioan-Bogoslovs'ka Church was
located. After the reconstruction of the Church in 1892-1893, two buildings
were added from the northern and southern sides. The church was extended.
It is stone, plastered, complicated in its plan, three-storied, on the socle
(with basement and semibasement). It is situated on the relief. The basement
has a lot of chambers and is located under the northern part of the building.
The planning is corridor with two sided location of the rooms. The coverings
are flat, in the basement they are vaulted. The roof is hipped along the wooden
rafters, the roofing is iron. The elevations of the first floor are rusticated.
The windows of the first floor are with arched tie plates.
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by Yana Anufriyeva
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Building of Podil's'ka Theological
Seminary, where the Narodnik's Organization "Podil's'ka
Druzhyna" (The Podilian Squad) was formed. M.V.Semashkevych, N.I.Yavors'kyi
worked there, Y.I.Sitsyns'kyi, N.D.Leontovych, V.Y.Svidzyns'kyi, N.Y.Vrublevs'kyi
studied there. Later, it was the Agricultural Institute. Today, it is Agricultural
and Technical Academy.
13 Shevchenko St.
It is situated in the northern part of the city.
It was built in 1865, for Podil's'ka Orthodox Theological Seminary. It is stone,
three-storied, three-chambered, in Russian Classicism style.
At the beginning of 1881, a large Narodnik's organization "Podil's'ka Druzhyna"
(Podilian Squad) of narodovol'cheska orientation was formed there from students.
V.I.Dziubyns'kyi, G.F.L'vovych, V.T.Starynkevych, M.S.Starodvors'kyi headed
this organization. It consisted of nine secret groups. The members of the "druzhyna"
arranged gatherings where revolutionary literature was read and the position
of peasants was condemned. They created illegal library (350 books). There were
works of K.Marx, F.Engels, N.G.Chernyshevs'kyi, T.G.Shevchenko, and others in
it. They also led the antiautocratic propaganda in the villages and prepared
the journal "Listok Podol'skoy Druzhyny" (The List of the Podillian
Squad) for publication. In March 1882, the organization was done to the world,
20 of its members were taken into the city prison, the leaders of the organization
were sent to into exile to Siberia, and 105 of students were excluded from the
seminary.
From 1871 to 1884, M.V.Semashkevych, a famous scolar, historian, ethnographer
of Podillia, theolog, and pedagogue worked as a teacher and rector of the seminary.
He has published the main works: "Istoriko-Geographicheskiy Ocherk Podollii"
(Historical and Geographical Essay of Podillia), editions �-�� (1875,1876),
"Sbornik svedeniy o Podol'skoy Gubernii" (Collection of the Materials
about the Podillian Government).
In the 80's of the XIX - beginning of the XX century, N.I.Yavors'kyi worked
as a teacher at the seminary. He was also a researcher of Podillia, editor of
"Podil's'ki Yeparkhial'ni Vidomosti" (Podillian Eparchian Bulletin)
(1883-1890) and of five volumes of the Works of the Podillian Historical and
Statistics committee, and one of the founders of the Drevnekhranylysche in the
city (the Historical museum).
In the middle 70's of the XIX century, Y.I.Sitsyns'kyi (1859-1927) - famous
researcher of the history of Podillia - studied at the seminary. He is one of
the founers of the Drevnekhranylysche, the author of the book Kamyanets-Podil's'kyi
(1895) and other 180 works. In 1892-1899, N.D.Leontovych (13.12.1877-22.01.1921)
studied there. He was a famous Ukrainian composer, conductor, music and public
figure, and pedagogue. He began to collect and process folk songs that were
included in his First song collection of villages of Podillia, and Second song
collection of villages of Podillia during the years of his studying at the seminary.
He also run the choir of the students. In 1900-1904, V.Y.Svidzyns'kyi (8.10.1885-18.10.1941),
a Ukrainian writer and translator, studied there. He finished his studies at
the seninary and graduated from the Kyiv Commercial Institute. In the 20's he
worked in the editorial staff of the Kamyanets'-Podil's'kyi's newspaper "Chervonyi
Kordon" (Red Border). He also published the collections of the poetry "Lirychni
Poeziyi "(Lyrical Poetry) (1922), "Veresen"(September) (1927)
and Ukrainian translations of the works of Gesiod, Ovidiy, Aristofan, Lope de
Vega and others. N.Y.Vrublevs'kyi (10.02.1897-25.12.1918) who studied at the
seminary in 1913-1915, repeated Svidzyns'kyi's way of getting education. He
was a revolutionary, famous statesman and party figure of Soviet Ukraine of
the beginning of the Great October Socialistic Revolution and Civil War.
In 1921, the main building of the Agriculture Institute was located in this
building. The institute was established in 1919 as the Agriculture department
at fomer Kamyanets'-Podil's'kyi University. In 1921, the department was changed
into independent institute of higher education.
Today, the institute trains high qualified personnel of 6 specialities: Agronomy,
Zootechny, Veterinary Medicine, Mechanization of Agriculture, Economics and
Management of the branches of the Agricultural complex, Business Accounting,
Control and Analysis of economical activities in the agriculture. More than
5 thousand of students study at full and part-time departments ������� � �������
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There are 35 chairs, where there are 342 teachers (7 professors, DS, 157 assistant
professors, candidates of sciences).
The institute traines own research and educational personnel by means of the
post-graduate study. There is a special board for the defence of the candidates'
dissertations at the institute.
The preparation department and the faculty of the raising the level of the specialists'
skills there is at the institute.
There are more than 500 thousand books in the funds of the institute's library.
During its existing, the institute has trained thousands of specialists with
high level of proficiency.
This is the regional institute, that is why the majority of its graduates work
on the fields and farms of Khmel'nyts'ka, Vinnyts'ka, Ternopil's'ka, Chernivets'ka,
Ivano-Frankivs'ka Oblast's. A lot of people work in other oblast's of Ukraine,
and also in Moldova, Belorus, Kazahstan.
Among the graduates of the institute there is a honoured worker of science,
the Hero of Socialistic Work, academician of the Academy of Science of USSR,
A.V.Kvasnyts'kyi, former deputy Minister of Agriculture of USSR, M.N.Shevchenko,
Doctor of Agriculture Sciences, professors P.P.Berezhna, F.G.Gavryliuk, K.A.Brovkina,
L.V.Lazarevych, V.A.Olenevych, V.I.Pal'hevs'kyi, M.I.Shkol'nyk and others. Some
of the graduates of the institute are the Heroes of Socialistic Work: M.P.Vakariuk,
Z.D.Gluhaniuk, R.A.Kravchuk, M.N.Mazur, A.I.Novyts'kyi, I.B.Probytyi, M.S.Sereda,
V.I.Stets'ko. The Now, the institute became the Academy. It is the centre of
the agricultural science on Podillia. There is a scientific-research sector,
problem laboratory of selection of buckwheat in the Academy. The scientific-research
work of the teachers and students has been conducted at all chairs of the Academy.
LITERATURE
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