Ukrainian Academy of Printing

History

Specialist's training for printing branch in Ukraine started in 1930 in the School of Printing Art founded by Stefan Kulzhenko.

Founded in 1917 in Kyiv, the Ukrainian Art Academy has become the first higher arts educational institution with a graphic workshop in the history of Ukraine.

In 1922 the academy was reorganized in Kyiv Institute of Plastic Arts. In the year 1923 Kyiv Art Institute was created (today it’s the National Academy of Visual Arts and Architecture) by the way of uniting Kyiv Institute of Plastic Arts and Kyiv Architecture Institute. The same year on the base of Kyiv Art Institute was created the printing faculty by the way of uniting of the graphic department of the Institute with the School of Printing Art. 50 students entered this faculty. They studied on the next three specializations: book and newspaper printing, color printing and printing of the stamps and illustrated magazines друк. Famous painter professor A. Kh. Sereda became the head of the faculty. At the same time printing faculties in the Art Institutes in Kharkiv, Odessa, Moscow and Leningrad were opened.

Campuses and buildings

Main Building in Lviv, Pidholosko street, 19

Faculty of Publishing, Printing and Information Technology (Pidholosko st., 19)

Faculty of Economics and Book Science (Pidholosko st, 19)

Faculty of Computer and Printing Engineering (Pidholosko st., 19)

Extra Mural Department (Pidvalna st., 17)

Center of After-Diploma Education (Pidvalna st., 17)

Preparatory department (Pidholosko st, 19)

Crimean Institute of Information and Printing Technologies (Simpheropol, Pushkina.st, 35)

Lviv Printing College (Lviv, Mytna square, 1)

Department of Work with the Foreign Companies and Institutions

Department of Work with Foreign Students

Scientific and Technical Library

UAP Publishing House

Training and Production Experimental Printing House

Training and Demonstration Centre of "Heidelberg" Company

Institutes and faculties

FACULTY OF COMPUTER PRINTING ENGINEERING

Directions and specialities:

Engineering Mechanics

Technology of Machine Building (Engineering Technology)

Packing Machines and Technology

Printing Machines and Automated Systems

Automation and Computer Integrated Technologies

Automated Control of Technology Process

Computer-Integrated Technological Processes and Production

PUBLISHING AND PRINTING INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FACULTY

Directions and specialities:

Publishing and Printing

Printed Editions Technology

Technology of Development, Production and Design of Packaging

Computer Technologies and Systems of Publishing and Printing Production

Technology of Electronic Multimedia Editions

Materials for Publishing and Printing production

Art

Fine and Applied Arts

ECONOMY AND BOOK BUSINESS FACULTY

Notable alumni

Pavlo Arie — screenwriter, translator, playwright

Aleksandr Aksinin — graphics artist

Yuri Andrukhovych — poet, novelist, translator and essayist

Sergei Balenok — graphic artist, painter, illustrator

Viktor Merezhko — screenwriter, film director, playwright, actor, writer, TV presenter

Nicholas Zalevsky — Ukrainian-American artist

Danil "Dendi" Ishutin - A professional eSports player

Sergey Poyarkov – artist and public figure

Odarka Sopko – artist and graphic painter