page_title: Shevchenko State Art School
hierarchical_section_title: Shevchenko State Art School
caption_attribution_description: English: The Shevchenko State Art School in Kyiv, 1940. At that time this school was the first and only selective high school for artists in the Soviet Union.
context_page_description: Taras Shevchenko State Art School is a selective high school specializing in fine arts, in Kiev, Ukraine.
  The school is part of the complex that also includes schools of ballet and music. It is located adjoining a historic park overlooking the Southern end of Babi Yar.
  The school was established on August 12, 1937, and was originally located at 2 Volodymyrska Street, Kiev. The first pupils graduated in 1940. Due to the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, all the graduates from this class as well as the directors of the school were conscripted into the Soviet Army and sent to the Eastern Front.
  There are many notable artists among its graduates.
context_section_description: Taras Shevchenko State Art School (Ukrainian: Державна художня середня школа імені Тараса Шевченка) is a selective high school (5th through 12th grade) specializing in fine arts (painting, sculpture and architecture), in Kiev, Ukraine. 
  The school is part of the complex that also includes schools of ballet and music. It is located adjoining a historic park overlooking the Southern end of Babi Yar.
  The school was established on August 12, 1937, and was originally located at 2 Volodymyrska Street, Kiev (now the National Museum of the History of Ukraine). The first pupils graduated in 1940. Due to the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, all the graduates from this class as well as the directors of the school were conscripted into the Soviet Army and sent to the Eastern Front.
  There are many notable artists among its graduates.
caption: The school in 1940
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