THE ROLE OF CENTRAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS OF UKRAINE IN OBTAINING EDUCATION FOR REPRESENTATIVES OF THE SOUTHERN SLAVS IN THE 19TH CENTURY

The article analyzes the role of central educational institutions of Ukraine in the education of representatives of the Balkan Slavs.South Slavic youth preferred to receive education at the Kyiv Academy, Kharkiv University, the South Slavic boarding house in Mykolaiv, and others.Since 1856, when Balkan Slavs were exempted from paying for their education, children from poor families (peasants, artisans, teachers, and others) also had the opportunity to study at central educational institutions of Ukraine.Balkan Slavs came to Ukraine not only to get an education, but also to find work.Feeling pressure from the Austro-Hungarian and Turkish authorities, many representatives of the South Slavic peoples could not find work in their homeland.And the south of Ukraine provided them with the opportunity to do what they loved.The acquisition of education in Ukraine by the South Slavs with a high level of science and culture objectively corresponded to the national interests of the Balkan peoples and aroused gratitude on their part.The undeniable positive role of the Mykolaiv South Slavic boarding school in training intellectuals for the Balkan countries, primarily Bulgaria: hundreds of its students became teachers, doctors, agronomists in their homeland, and after the liberation of the country took an active part in the construction of a national state.South Slavs who worked in Ukraine, as well as some students, published in periodicals and separate works their research on the history, culture, and education of the South Slavic peoples, and left memories of the years spent in Ukraine.In Kharkiv and Kyiv, Poltava and Odessa, and in other cities, works by South Slavs were published in the second half of the 19th century.Many of the Balkan Slavs, who had only dreamed of temporary relocation related to obtaining education or finding work, gradually came to the idea of staying in the southern Ukrainian lands forever.