Celebrations on the occasion of the 68th anniversary of the Great Victory.
On the 7th of May at NTUU "KPI" was held a solemn meeting on the occasion of the 68th anniversary of the Great Victory.
The participants of the Great Patriotic War - Kyiv Polytechnic Institute veterans - were gathered in the hall of the Academic Council; there they were warmly welcomed by the first pro-rector of NTUU "KPI", academic NAS of Ukraine Yuriy Yakymenko, a chairman of the trade union of the university employees Vitaliy Molchanov, a veteran of the World War II and long-term employee of the university Mykola Trykhlib, the head of the NGO "KPI Veteran" Yuriy Nesterenko and a cadet of the Military Institute of Telecommunications and Information of NTUU "KPI", a senior soldier Julia Popravko.
The Price of the Great Victory: Ukrainian Dimension
Every state has some dates which signify remarkable events. May 9, the Victory Day, is such a date for Ukraine.
Every year, as May begins, the activity of governmental and non-governmental institutions increases: at different levels of public administration more attention is drawn to the participants in the Great Patriotic War, battle-front veterans and children of war. The reasons why the war was unleashed, nations' and states' participation and contribution to the Victory, its effects on the further development of the society are still being discussed by journalists, politicians and scholars specializing on the war. Films and series about the war are shown on TV.
Horlytskyy Lev Izrailevich. Creator of victory’s weapons
Modern war - it's not just war of tanks, aircraft, manpower, this along with everything else, as well war of scientific laboratories.
Academic I.V. Kurchatov
Lev Izrailevich Horlytskyy is the earliest explorer of a new kind of weapon - self-propelled guns (SPG). He is the chief designer of SPG: SU-122, SU-85, SU-100, which were taken up in 1942-1944 and have proven to be very effective fighting machine.