Outstanding Polish graduates

2022 is the anniversary year for the Section of Alumni of Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute in Poland.

I remember in the summer of 2010 we talked with the rector of the Kiev Politechnics Michael Zgurovsky to perpetuate the memory of the great polish scientist and public activist  - the KPI graduate  - Wojciech Svyentoslavskyy on the territory of "KPI".

Jan Gaudenty Skzhipinsky (Jan Gaudenty Skrzypinski) was born in 1891 in an entail property of Pulko in the Warsaw province in the veterinarian's family. In 1917 he graduated from mechanical faculty of the Kiev Polytechnic institute.

Nikolay Chizhevsky (Mikolaj Czyzewski) was born in Ukraine (town Gadyach) in a family of the district secretary. In 1910 he finished the Kiev gymnasium and became the student of chemical faculty of KPI where received absolyutory (i.e.

He was born in 1893 to Poodle. He was a son of the doctor. In 1912 he finished a gymnasium in Lutsk and began training at the Kiev university. In 1913 Ezhi became the student of the Lviv polytechnic, and since 1915. - Kiev Polytechnical institute.

Tadeush Alexander Graff (Tadeusz Aleksander Graff) was born in Warsaw in 1886. He left secondary school in Vinnytsia, then he studied in KPI at mechanical faculty. He participated in the Polish student's organizations: in the Brotherly help and Corporation, cooperating with Kazimir Vezheysky..

Anton Alexander Skudra (Antoni Aleksander Skudro) was born in 1882 in Mogilev on Podillya. He graduated from the gymnasium in Kishinev, studied at the Kiev university at mathematical faculty. In 1901. He was expelled from the university for participation in illegal students strike.

Shanyavsky Karol (Karol Szaniawski) was born in 1891 in Ukraine, Cherkassy district, Rotmystrovtsi. His father was a family doctor. He graduated from high school in Yelyzavethrad (now Kirovograd) and in 1909 was enrolled to the mechanical department of Kyiv Polytechnic Institute.

Alexander Zygmunt Dobzhansky was born in Volyn in the village Zazyvav in 1891. In 1909 he entered the KPI, where in 1914 became a junior assistant at the Faculty of Chemistry, and in 1917 received a diploma of engineer chemist.

Ian Hirtler was born in 1879 in the town.Lukow. He graduated from grammar school in Siedlce, studied at the Warsaw Polytechnic Institute, and after the break due to the student strike moved to Kyiv, where in 1907 he graduated from KPI, receiving a diploma of engineering and technology.