Astroh National University Academy

Astroh National University Academy

Ostro National Academic University is the successor to the Ostroh Slavic and Greek and Latin Academy, which was the first institution of higher learning for the East Slavic countries. It was founded in 1576 by Prince Vasyl Kostiantin, Prince of Ostro. The gentle princess, Halska Amira Astrouh, was the recipient of the academy and spent a great deal of money developing it. Basically, Ostro Academy was very common for European standards of medieval education, but unusual for Ukrainians, as there was practicing teaching of the so-called Seven Free Sciences (grammar, rhetoric, dialectic, arithmetic, geometry, music, astronomy) and higher sciences) : Philosophy, Theology, and Medicine. The academy students learned five languages: Slavic, Polish, Hebrew, Latin and Greek. The originality of this institution was also in the fact that it was the first to unify two types of cultures, Byzantine and Western European. The renaissance of the Ukrainian nation has been associated with the Ostro Academy.
The most advanced Ukrainian publishing house of those times was Ivan Fedorov printing house of the Cyrillic type. It was established in the Astroua Cultural Center in conjunction with the Academy. Greek and Slavic ABC-Book, the first Ukrainian textbook (1578); The New Testament (1580); Tymofii Mykhailovych's Sobranie Veschey Nuzhneyshykh (Essential Things Collection), the first evidence of ancient printed texts in the history of the Cyrillic polygraph; Chronology of Andrei Remsha (1581), the first masterpiece of poetry printed in Ukraine; The first complete Slavic Ostro Bible (1581), a masterpiece of ancient Ukrainian polygraphs; Notable Dialectical Works - A Key to the Heavenly Kingdom, New Roman Calendar (1587) by Herasim Smotritsky, Apocrysis by Christopher Filaret, etc. Posted here called "Learning Portals".
Ostro Academy records revived in independent Ukraine began in 1994 by decree of the President of Ukraine. Thanks to the subsequent decrees of the President of Ukraine, the development of the Ostro Academy received a new effect of further growth. In October 2000, Austro Academy officially became the national university.

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Second Ring Street,
City Astroa ,,
Rivnenska oblast

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