Kyiv National Ivan Karpovych Karpenko-Karyi Theatre, Cinema and Television University (Ukrainian: Київський національний університет театру, кіно і телебачення імені Івана Карповича Карпенка-Карого)[a] is the national university specializing exclusively in performing arts and located in Kyiv, Ukraine.

The institution was first registered with the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs on 5 March 1899 as a music-drama school, but it only opened in September 1904.

The school was opened in the building belonging to the professor-psychiatrist I. Sikorsky on 15 Velyka Pidvalna Street (today Yarslaviv Val).

In the fall of 1908, the first classes for the Bandura (a Ukraine-stringed instrument) were begun at the Lysenko music school, enhancing Kobzarstvo culture.

Sometime during the Russian Civil War, the Bolshevik government approved the request to move the school to 45 Velyka Volodymyrivska Street (today it is the Palace of Scientists of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine).

The university was temporarily merged with the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts in Moscow during the occupation of Kyiv in World War II between 1941 and 1943.

It returned from Moscow with a slightly changed name: “Kyiv State Institute of Theatrical Art”, and in 1945, on the occasion of the centenary of the birth of the outstanding Ukrainian playwright and theater figure I.K.

In 1965, the institute was given the premises of the former Tereshchenko School of Economics at 40 Yaroslavov Val Street, but the educational process here was established after repairs in 1968.

The construction of a new building of the Institute on Lvovskaya Square, started in 1986, was stopped in 1995 due to a lack of public funds.

By the Decree of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine dated April 18, 2003, the Kiev State Institute of Theater Arts named after I.K.

Currently, the Kiev National University of Theatre, Film and Television is a highly professional educational institution that offers training in a wide range of licensed creative specialties and specializations.