Repressed Teachers of Ukraine: Yakiv Feofanovych Chepiha (Zelenkevych) (1875-1938)

The article reveals the significant milestones in the life and work of the Ukrainian teacher, psychologist, and public person, author of more than 150 works (articles, manuals, textbooks) Yakiv Feofanovych Chepiha (1875-1938). It is argued that the educator, relying on Western European and American researchers, developed the ideas of the national school, native language education, national, labor, and free education, and pedology. He became a victim of Stalin’s totalitarian system as his views did not match communist ideology. Nowadays, in independent Ukraine, his name has been brought back from oblivion, and his creative heritage has gained relevance.