In the article the absence of required number of educational establishments of pedagogical area at the turn of the XIX and XX centuries has been revealed on basis of the pedagogical literature analysis and archive sources, the analysis of the activity of pedagogical courses created in the early XX century and interim pedagogical courses of Slobidska Ukraine within the bounds of the training of future teachers of primary educational establishments for teaching profession is carried out. Though Pedagogical Institute aiming at training teaching personnel for the district secondary schools and giving the profound scientific and pedagogical training for the candidates for various teaching positions at higher educational establishments was set up at Kharkiv University (1804) but the training of future teachers of primary and secondary schools was carried out in a spontaneous way. After the opening of the Department of Pedagogy in the Institute pedagogical disciplines were formed, scientific and pedagogical activity of the department’s members was carried out, treatises and educational textbooks were written. However both Pedagogical Institute and the Department of Pedagogy were closed. During 1860-1867 pedagogical education in Kharkiv province was provided by Higher pedagogical courses with the two-year studying. University graduates were usually accepted as students of pedagogical courses and afterwards they taught their disciplines at higher educational establishments. On account of the need to open a great number of public colleges in Ukraine the barest necessity for teaching personnel for those educational establishments was arisen. People not only without special pedagogical training but even without secondary education were appointed for the position of a teacher. A lot of teaching positions were open. On the ground of September resolution (1900) of the Minister of public education pedagogical courses at public colleges for training young people to get the qualification of a teacher of primary colleges were opened on the territory of Slobozhanshchina, where didactics and general pedagogy were obligatory to study besides the subjects and their methodologies.