Abstract
The article considers three conditional formation periods of the extracurricular education in Ukraine (before the revolution of 1917, the Soviet era, the period of independent Ukraine). The features of extracurricular institutions of each period, the formation purposes, the main tasks of the periods, the implementation forms of extracurricular education are studied. The description of Ukrainian landmark buildings of each period is given. The modern problems such as the problem of moral and physical obsolescence of educational spaces, private establishments control system, the lack of regulatory documents for extracurricular institutions design, difficulties related to functioning of extracurricular education system in the structure of united territorial communities and the fate of abandoned cultural centres are reviewed. Development trends of extracurricular institutions of Ukraine are revealed. The question of the extracurricular educational system formation in foreign countries is touched upon and the specifics of foreign extracurricular educational systems are revealed.