On June 24, local history literary-pedagogical readings "Education and Upbringing in the Kosach Family" were held at the Literary-Memorial Museum of Lesya Ukrainka in Kolodiazhne, dedicated to the 155th anniversary of the birth of Olena Pchilka (June 29) and the 55th anniversary of the Literary-Memorial Museum of Lesya Ukrainka in Kolodiazhne (July 10). Olena Pchilka – the literary name of Olha Petrivna Kosach, née Drahomanova (1849-1930) – writer, publicist, ethnographer; author of poems, fables, long poems, short stories, plays, works on Ukrainian ornament; mother of the poet and writer Lesya Ukrainka (1871-1913) – Larysa Petrivna Kosach-Kvitka. The co-organizers of the readings were the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of Ukraine, the Department of Education and Science of the Volyn Regional State Administration, the Volyn Institute of Postgraduate Pedagogical Education, the Kovel District State Administration, the Literary-Memorial Museum of Lesya Ukrainka in Kolodiazhne, the Volyn Museum of Local Lore, the Volyn Regional State Universal Scientific Library named after Olena Pchilka, and the Volyn Regional Society of Local Historians. The participants of the readings became acquainted with the life and activities of the Kosach family in Kolodiazhne through a tour conducted by Vira Komziuk, Honored Worker of Culture of Ukraine, director of the museum. The readings were attended by and featured presentations from Hanna Maslai, associate professor, rector of the Volyn Institute of Postgraduate Pedagogical Education (VIPPO); Hennadii Bondarenko, candidate of historical sciences, head of the Department of Theory and Methods of Teaching at VIPPO, corresponding member of the Ukrainian Academy of Historical Sciences; Anatolii Syliuk, director of the Volyn Museum of Local Lore; Yurii Vasylenko, candidate of philosophical sciences, associate professor of VDU; Nina Horyk, laureate of the regional prize named after Lesya Ukrainka, poet; museum staff, and teachers. The program of the readings included the opening of a personal exhibition by the well-known master of folk art Maria Kravchuk, "Straw Band". The readings concluded with a tour of the places of Lesya Ukrainka's "Forest Song" (Ukhovetsk, Bilyn, Skulyn, Voloshky, Nechymne). In Nechymne, a round table was held at which the use of the pedagogical experience of the Kosach family in modern education was discussed. The materials of the local history literary-pedagogical readings, which it was decided to hold every two years in the future, will be published in the quarterly journal of VIPPO, "Pedagogical Search".