Kyiv National I. K. Karpenko-Kary Theatre, Cinema and Television University

Public university in Kyiv, Ukraine

Kyiv National Ivan Karpovych Karpenko Karyi Theatre, Cinema and Television University (Київський національний університет театру, кіно і телебачення імені Івана Карповича Карпенка Карого) is the national university specializing exclusively in performing arts and located in Kyiv, Ukraine. It is a multidisciplinary institution that includes a department of theatrical arts and the Institute of Screen Arts. The university has four campuses around the city of Kyiv and a separate student dormitory. The acting rector of the university is Inna Kocharian.

The institution was first registered with the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs on 5 March 1899 as a music drama school, but it only opened in September 1904. On 7 November 1912, the school was named Lysenko Music and Drama School in memory of Mykola Lysenko, who was its first director. The sponsorship came from Mykola Levytsky and Mykhailo Starytsky, a father in law of Ivan Steshenko. The school was opened in the building belonging to the professor psychiatrist I. Sikorsky on 15 Velyka Pidvalna Street (today Yarslaviv Val). Upon the death of Mykola Lysenko, the school chairman became O. Vonsovska, the school's violin instructor, and then pianist Maryana Lysenko, the daughter of M. Lysenko.

In 1916 1917, the theatrical studio of Les Kurbas was opened at the institute. At the end of 1918, the chairman of artistic affairs and national culture, Petro Doroshenko, signed the document to transform the school into the Higher music drama school of Mykola Lysenko. During 1919 1920, the first rector of the school was Felix Blumenfeld. Sometime during the Russian Civil War, the Bolshevik government approved the request to move the school to 45 Velyka Volodymyrivska Street (today it is the Palace of Scientists of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine). The school was moved again to 52 Khreshchatyk, a place it has rented from the local municipal administration since 1922. Mykola Hrinchenko was the rector of the school from 1924 1928. The university was temporarily merged with the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts in Moscow during the occupation of Kyiv in World War II between 1941 and 1943. Many graduates, teachers, and students of the institute did not return from the war fronts. Their names are carved on memorial plaques installed in the 1960s in two different buildings of the Institute: on Yaroslavov Val Street, 40, and on Khreschatyk Street, 52. In November 1943, the Institute moved from Moscow to Kharkov, where a separate State Theater Institute was established, and in the summer of 1944, it was reevacuated to Kiev. The post war period of the institute's history is marked by important events. It returned from Moscow with a slightly changed name: “Kyiv State Institute of Theatrical Art”, and in 1945, on the occasion of the centenary of the birth of the outstanding Ukrainian playwright and theater figure I. K. Karpenko Kary, the institute was named after him. Since 1944, the institute has been training specialists in the specialization of "theater studies". In 1961, a resolution was adopted by the Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR to establish a film faculty at the institute to train personnel in film directing, cinematography, and film studies. In fact, in Ukraine, the training of personnel for cinematography was restored, which was artificially suspended due to the liquidation of the Institute of Cinematography in 1938. This faculty was located in the seventh building of the State Historical and Architectural Reserve "Kiev Pechersk Lavra". Since 1997, the faculty has been housed in the buildings of the Kyiv film studio of chronicle and documentary films on Shchorsa Street, 18. Since 1964, postgraduate and assistant courses have been functioning at the institute as internships. In 1965, the institute was given the premises of the former Tereshchenko School of Economics at 40 Yaroslavov Val Street, but the educational process here was established after repairs in 1968. Then, after a long break, the educational theater resumed its work. And in 1986, the institute was provided with non residential premises for an educational building on Yaroslavskaya Street, 17/22. The construction of a new building of the Institute on Lvovskaya Square, started in 1986, was stopped in 1995 due to a lack of public funds. In the 1980s 1990s, for the first time in Ukraine, the institute opened specializations such as "choreography," "announcer and presenter of television programs," "sound engineering," "circus direction," and in 2003, "actor of the puppet theater" specialization was added. By the Decree of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine dated April 18, 2003, the Kiev State Institute of Theater Arts named after I. K. Karpenko Kary was renamed the Kiev State University of Theater, Film and Television named after I. K. Karpenko Kary.

Now in the staff of the Kiev National University of Theater, Film and Television named after I. K. Karpenko Kary among 188 full time teachers – 11 doctors of science professors, 27 professors without a scientific degree of doctor of science, 67 candidates of science and associate professor, 14 people's artists, 20 honored figures arts, an honored worker of science and technology, 10 honored artists, three honored workers of culture, one honored worker of public education. 15 academicians, 12 corresponding members and one honorary full member of the Academy of Arts of Ukraine graduated from the university in different years, worked and are now working. Currently, the Kiev National University of Theatre, Film and Television is a highly professional educational institution that offers training in a wide range of licensed creative specialties and specializations. The university provides educational, methodological, research, and professional training for future specialists at two faculties: theatrical art and the art of cinema and television, offering full time, evening, and correspondence forms of education. The Academic Council of the University, the administration, three dean's offices, fourteen departments, an educational theater, and an educational cinema and television complex are responsible for organizing these activities.