Foundational Educational Institution Biotechnological Lyceum "Radovel" is a State secondary school in the village Radovel, Olevsk Raion, Zhytomyr Oblast. A state of the art educational space, fully adapted for the development of children, including those with special educational needs. It is a safe educational environment, where child development is organically linked to real-world application. The mission of the Lyceum is: “We are developing together: parents - children - teachers - community!" History The history of Radovel State Secondary School has been preserved in books by the former teacher and headmaster of Radovel State Secondary School, a researcher in the history of her native land, Nina Veselska, The Corner of the Picturesque Polissya and Memory is Everpresently Alive: Essays from the History of the Village Radovel and its School. Until recently, it was thought that the first mention of the school dated back to 1899. It was evidenced by the handwritten document "Case No. 8604", which is stored in the Central State Historical Archives of Ukraine (Kyiv), and by the handbook "School of the Kiev Educational District", which is preserved in the National Library named after V. I. Vernadskyi, in the department of the historical works. The latter contains a list of teachers from the Ovruch district for the year 1908, among which there is mention of a Radovel Church Parish School teacher. However, in 2018, the Lyceum requested documents from the Zhytomyr State Regional Archives which could provide an earlier mention of the school’s existence. Upon the request, the following two official documents were received: "The Judgment of Radovel and Zhubrovychi Rural Communities" and "Report on the State Church Parish School of the 4th Deanery district in the Ovruch county, the first-world section of the Zhubrovychi volost in the village of Radovel for 1897-1898", which revealed the actual date of the school's opening — October 6, 1886. The first Radovel school was a church parish institution. It had one classroom with a three-year term of study. There was no separate school building. The children studied in 2-3 ordinary rural huts. In 1920, the Radovel three-year school system was reorganized into a four-year system. As of December 15, 1927, there were 64 students taught by one teacher in Radovel. In 1935-1936, under the directorship of Stanislav Dembytskyi, the first wooden two-story school building was built and operated in the village of Radovel. At that time, new young specialists joined the teaching