By leading the team of teachers and scholars of KPI at various stages of its formation they took the highest responsibility. The progress of the Institute depended on them.
At the meeting of the Academic Senate, the rector of the Poznań University of Technology, Professor Teofil Jesionowski, said that the team of the Faculty of Automatic Control, Robotics and Electrical Engineering took the initiative to award the rector of Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute,
On this day, May 26, 1904, Olexandr Serhiyovych Plyhunov, the Rector of Kyiv Polytechnic Institute who made a huge contribution to the development of the institute in difficult times after World War II, was born.
Post-war Kyiv Polytechnic Institute is indebted to its rector Oleksandr Plygunov for speedy recovery, reintegration into the atmosphere of high academic culture and pedagogical excellence. He made a great contribution to the Institute’s development in hard after-war years.
Outstanding scientist in the field of energy and heat engineering, doctor of technical sciences (1947), professor (1931), Dean of the Department of Energy (Thermal Engineering) of the Kyiv Industrial Institute, Head of the Department of Steam Engine.
“Our air fleet will never be powerful, unless we develop aircraft industry. This industry will always drag out a miserable existence and using plagiarism of foreign constructions until we haven’t developed our own engineer staff. This truth is too evidently and there is no point in proving it. Everybody who wants to lay the solid foundation in the improvement of air fleet, who values the national wealth and doesn’t satisfied only by outer side, should adopt it…
Michael Zakharovich Zgurovsky - Rector of Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Honored Scientist of Ukraine, laureate of the State Prize of Ukraine in Science and Technology, Laureate Glushkov Prize of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, professor
Petro Mihailovich Talanchuk (1.7.1938, Gorodishe-Kosivske, Volodarsky district, Kyiv region) - PhD, Professor, Minister of Education of Ukraine (1992-1994), member of the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of Ukraine, Honored Researcher of Ukraine, President Open International University of Human Development "Ukraine", member of the International Association of Universities Presidents (IAUP). Graduate KPI. Rector of KPI 1987 - 1992 years.
Mykola Petrovych Chyrvinskyy (28.04 [10.05] .1848, Chernigov - 05/01/1920) - Professor, scholar and zoo-technician. He graduated from St. Petersburg Agricultural Institute (1872).
Grigory Ivanovich Denisenko - an outstanding scientist, professor, doctor of technical sciences, corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences. The scope his personality, inherent to him natural features and unique destiny.
