Mezhyhirya as an educational center began to rise immediately after the faience factory opened in the premises of the former Kyiv-Mezhyhirya Monastery. The children of the factory workers were taught by a priest of the Cathedral of Transfiguration of the Savior assisted by a deacon. In 1836, a two-grade school was opened “to teach the arts.” The chief master of painting taught its attendants how to draw and engrave. Those talented enough for drawing went straight to the white room where they decorated dishes and sculpted, while others went to the workshop. The last graduation took place in 1851.
The next educational institution in Mezhyhirya was opened in 1920. It was a ceramic workshop school run by the famous Ukrainian painter, Lev Kramarenko. Later it was headed by Vasyl Sedlyar.
In January 1923, the People’s Commissariat of Education declared the school a college with the rights of a higher education institution. In 1928, the school was reorganized into the Technological Institute of Ceramics and Glass. Vasyl Sedlyar was dismissed from his post in 1930. In 1931, the Mezhyhirya Institute was moved to Kyiv.
