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Lesya Ukrainka Volyn National University is one of the leading centres of higher education in the region, a nucleus of education, science and culture in Volyn. The origins of Volyn’s educational traditions date back to the period when Russia and Ukraine formed a single nation. Reading and writing were taught in monasteries and churches, and it is probable that a knowledge of the Slavic script was instilled by teachers at the Church of St. John the Apostle in Lutsk. Lutsk books of acts and decrees from the second half of the sixteenth and the first half of the seventeenth centuries confirm the proliferation of "ecclesiastical/juridical dynasties." In the approximate period between 1620 and 1640, Ivan Vyhovsky, who would later become a hetman of Ukraine, served in the local chancellery of Lutsk. In 1608, educational interchange in Lutsk was enriched by the establishment of a Jesuit college. In about 1619 a "Greek, Latin and Slovenian" school was opened within the Lutsk Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross. In the eighteenth century, various schools appeared in Volyn; Vasylii the Great (of the Vasylian fathers), in particular, established a three-grade primary school (with classes in poetics and rhetoric) within the Lutsk Vasylian Monastery. In the latter third of the eighteenth century, educational endeavours were enriched by the addition of curricula in mathematics, physics, chemistry, economics, law, history, French and German.мов. The Volyn governorate had a developed school network by 1830–1831. Approximately 100 parish primary schools and 14 secondary schools were in operation here. The development of school-related and scientific research patterns in these periods culminated in the development of a developed educational system, which harmoniously combined the achievements of local and European school traditions. In 1895, a four-form boys’ school was established, and in 1908, an eight-form boys’ specialized school [‘gymnasium’]. The first Ukrainian four-grade public school was founded in 1916 in Volodymyr-Volynskyi. By 1919–1920, their number had increased to 367. Gymnasia [specialized schools] and profession-oriented educational institutions were constructed.