Ukraine is at war. Every day people die in this war. They die for us to live, study, work, love, bring up children. Here not everyone is aware of the high price paid by our compatriots for this peace and tranquility. For the right to live calmly on their land and thirteen Kiev Polytechnicians gave life. Four of them were given the title of Hero of Ukraine posthumously.
The thirteen pieces of our classmates, friends and colleagues were destroyed. In thirteen families grief has settled forever...
The memory of these people is now immortalized in the stone. So as not to forget contemporaries, and to always remember the descendants. After all, any war is about to end. One can not allow people to forget the names of those who put the freedom of the Motherland on the altar of the most valuable thing that they had – their own lives.
The monument to the Kiev Polytechnicians, who gave their lives for the freedom and independence of Ukraine, was opened on August, 30. It is located near the church of St. Nicholas, the heavenly patron of the university and the monument in honor of the Heroes of Heavenly Hundred. It is a stylized, elongated figure of red Ukrainian granite on a black pedestal, which resembles the figure of the goddess Nike, which traditionally represents military victories, and, at the same time, a Christian angel who ascends the souls of the dead soldiers to God.
The sponsors of this project were the State Service for Special Communications and Information Protection of Ukraine and the 1997 KPI graduate, People's Deputy of Ukraine, Oleksandr Danchenko, Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Informatization and Communications.
The author of the monument is the famous Ukrainian sculptor, honored artist of Ukraine Anatoliy Valiev. Architect – Stanislav Snejhkin.