Anton Makarenko
Anton Makarenko (01.13.03.1888, city Bilopillia, now Sumy Oblast - 01.04.1939, Moscow) - a teacher and a writer.
Makarenko was born in a working class family in Sumy region. In 1901 his father, a house painter by profession, moved with his family at home of his mother in Kryukov - a working village in Kremenchug. In this place Anton Makarenko finished 4-classes school (1904) and teaching courses (1905).
In 1905-1911, 1917-1919 he worked as a teacher in Kryukov school, in 1911-1914. He worked in the same
college at the station Dolinskaya in Kherson province. After opening the Teachers' Institute in Poltava in 1914, Makarenko became one of its first 44 students. In 1917 after graduating from the institute with a gold medal, he returned to Kremenchug in a previous job. Subsequently, he worked as an inspector in Kryukovsky higher initial train college. Makarenko was a member of the board Kryukovsky department of education. In autumn of 1919 he moved to Poltava. Makarenko was the head of the 2nd urban elementary school. In august 1920 Makarenko was appointed a director of the 10th labor school.
In September 1920 Makarenko accepted to a proposal of the Provincial Department of Education to lead a colony of juvenile offenders. It was the first colony in the village of the Tribi near Poltava. Since November 1921 the colony moved in Kovalivka within 9 km from Poltava and based in the landowner’s estate of V. Trepke (in March 1921, the colony was named after M. Gorky).
An unprecedented pedagogical experiment has started. A. Makarenko was able to make potential criminals in organized, conscious and active members of society. Makarenko created a methodology, based on the principle of lay education of the individual in the team, through the negation of the thesis of the immutability of innate properties of the child (children's behavior, in his opinion, a consequence of their upbringing). After moving the colony in 1926 in Kuryazh near Kharkov Poltava’s working period of Makarenko ended. Since late 1927, he directed the municipality commune of F.E. Dzerzhinsky founded in the village of New Kharkov (Kharkiv suburb). In 1935-1936. working in Kiev, the deputy chief of the labor camps of the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs of USSR, in 1936-1937 Makarenko managed a colony in Brovary. Since 1937 he lived in Moscow, engaged in literary and social-pedagogical work.
His expertise and pedagogical views, Anton Makarenko outlined in his works (“March of the 30-th year” (1932),”Pedagogical Poem” (1933-1935). “A Book for Parents” (1937), “Flags on towers” (1938 PM), articles “About the communist ethics”, “Communist’s education and behavior”, etc). The most complete edition works of Makarenko in Ukrainian translation was published in Kiev in seven volumes in 1951-1953.
The system of Anton Makarenko influenced the development of Soviet pedagogy, as well as the writers who 
worked for children and youth. Creativity of A. Makarenko studied in many countries. The Center of International association of Makarenko is situated in the Poltava State Pedagogical University named after V.G. Korolenko. For the award of best teachers in Ukraine established the medal A. Makarenko.
In Kremenchug in 1951 in his father's house, where A. Makarenko lived in 1905-1911, 1917-1919 opened an educational memorial museum in Makarenko’s name. It was only one museum in the former Soviet Union. At the museum building in 1968 opened a memorial plaque to A. Makarenko, the second board installed in 1976 on the façade of a former railway school; in 1988 on the territory of the museum there is a monument.
In Poltava in 1982 there is a memorial plaque to A. Makarenko on the facade of the building of the Poltava Pedagogical University. In 1951 the name of the teacher named street.
There is A. Makarenko’s a museum-reserve in the village Kovalevka in Poltava Region in 1988 at the place where in 1921-1925 was a child labor camp named after M. Gorky. Before the rural home of culture in 1988 there is a monument to A. Makarenko.
