Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Fine Arts

The Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts or KSADA is a state institution of higher education in the field of Art (Design), subordinate to the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine and located in Kharkiv. Historical reference The Kharkiv Art School has its roots in the middle of the 18th century. In 1869, in response to the ever-increasing need for professional artists, the drawing school of M. Raevska-Ivanova was opened in Kharkiv as a separate specialized educational institution. It developed, in particular, an artistic and industrial direction, which subsequently gave impetus to the creation of higher Design education in Kharkiv on this basis. Future famous painters and architects studied here, in particular, prominent Ukrainian painters S. Vasylkivskyi, and M. Tkachenko, architect, Academician O. Beketov, and many others. In 1896, this private school was transformed into a city art school, and in 1912, an Art School was opened on its base, where M. Pestrykov, M. Fedorov, K. Pyneev, O. Lyubimov, O. Tytov, and S. Prokhorov, H. Gorelov, and O. Kokel taught.