The material covers the years of creative life of a famous Ukrainian artist-monumentalist, O. Pronin (1934–2002), associated with his leadership of the Department of Monumental Painting of the Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts and the development of stained glass as a technique and a form of monumental and decorative art in education. The author focuses on the formation of a school of artistic stained glass in Kharkiv, the founders of which were professors Oleksandr Pronin and his wife Galyna Tishchenko. The article has some features of autobiography and is presented in the form of memoirs about the activities of the stained glass workshop of KSADA – Kharkiv Art and Industry Institute, and life of the author and the main character of the story, O. Pronin, and his students, around this workshop. These are the times of formation of the laboratory, certain stages of gaining experience in the stained glass industry, analysis of works of art and the spread of stained glass art through the work of the head of the department and laboratory and his many followers. Documentary and illustrative materials on the activities of the stained glass workshop, which was created by O. Pronin in 1967 and is still developing thanks to the efforts and activities of the author of the article, who is a direct student and a follower of the master, mention significant for Kharkiv and all Ukraine monumental art projects, behind which O. Pronin stood as the author or leader. The facts and memoirs presented by the author of the article have historical and scientific value, since the author himself took part in the creation of the stained glass laboratory of KSADA as its head. Although the emphasis is made on the 1980–2000s, which was the period of the heyday of the laboratory, the author also cites the modern works of O. Pronin’s and his own students, showing the continuity of the traditions in the Kharkiv school of stained glass.