Abstract
The article explores the life and work of Vyacheslav Rozvadovskyi, a prominent Ukrainian artist, educator, and public figure who became the founder of the Kamianets-Podilskyi Art and Industrial School, the first educational institution in Ukraine for children of peasant origin to teach in the Ukrainian language. Particular attention is paid to his activities in organizing traveling art exhibitions in the early twentieth century aimed at popularizing art among the rural population, and the author analyzes the artist's contribution to the development of folk decorative and applied arts of Podillia. Based on archival materials and memoirs of his contemporaries, the social significance of Rozvadovskyi's activities is highlighted.