At the end of Ukrainian architecture, 19-early 20 centuries. marked tendency towards national traditions. Was popular with the so-called Ukrainian folk (national) architectural style. Then-progressive Ukrainian community has actively supported the idea of building in towns and villages in schools, hospitals and other facilities is in the national style. Lokhvytsky district council, of which then included modern varvenschina, has requested to develop projects of school buildings to Athanasius Georgievich Slastenu (1855-1933 gg.) - Prominent Ukrainian ethnographer, architects, artists, graphics, art historian, educator and cultural activist. As a result, in 1912-1914-ies on the draft AG Lokhvitskii sweets and technicians in the villages Svetlichny Makushiha, Ozeriany and Ostapivka active in rural schools were built in the Ukrainian folk style. The same school was built in Varva, which serves as a destination and sweat to this day. A. sweets using architectural details a number of classical examples of domestic architecture, which he knew perfectly, in particular, the Holy Virgin Protection Church in Romney (1764) and other structures of the church and civil construction. In our projects, A. sweets creatively reinterpreted national architectural forms and interpreted the experiences of past masters, which are widely used in wooden and brick buildings, doors and window gaps that have shaped (hexagonal) outline, as well as boxed arches tent covering several slopes with ledges in the form of pyramids and tents. A. sweets used to say: "The main elements of the architecture may be old, but the interpretation of these bases will be new." At the same time in the projects of schools, he used the latest achievements of rationalism, such as the transformation of classes by sliding partitions. As a person with a developed aesthetic sense, he works in the design solutions successfully applied an artistic interpretation and comparison of volumes, but as a connoisseur of traditional ornamentation liberally applied it on the external walls of buildings. So it is quite an innovative approach was an artist when creating their unique projects of school buildings in Lokhvytsky County, who became an extraordinary artistic event in the national architecture of modern times.