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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 | Foto
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 9 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 ������� � ������� ����������.
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.

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Translated by Yana Anufriyeva
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