Oleksandr Volnin – the first director of Poltava Teachers’ Institute.

Abstract

The article highlights the activity of a well-known pedagogue, public figure and the first director of the Poltava Teachers’ Institute Oleksandr Volnin. Being a Russian ethnically, he obtained theological education and lived in Ukraine significant part of his life. In 1914 he became a director of the newly-established Poltava Teachers’ Institute, due to his efforts, in the institute they could find and prepare for the educational and training process the material base, a powerful library, found the department of psychology and pedagogy, which became the basis for future prosperity of the institution. It was he who prepared a famous educator A. S. Makarenko.

Key words:

higher education; educational process; Poltava Teachers’ Institute; pedagogy.