Every year, when nature freezes in the autumn chill and prepares for a long sleep, our anxious hearts are filled with painful memories of the horrible November of 2004 and 2013. At that time, our answer was a resounding "no" to untruth, injustice, humiliation, and lawlessness. People with an unspeakable thirst for a decent life took to the streets. Their weapons were faith, courage, and strength of spirit.
Students, teachers, and staff of Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute were among the first to defend civil rights and free thought in the days of the Orange Revolution and during the Revolution of Dignity.
And we suffered an irreparable loss – a FICS student Serhii Bondarev died on the bloody square. And since March 2014, when the enemy encroached on the sovereignty and integrity of our Motherland, thirty-six university employees have been mobilized into the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and more than three hundred Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute graduates have volunteered for the front. Fourteen members of the Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute community gave their lives for the values of peace, democracy, and freedom. Four of them got awarded the title of Hero of Ukraine.
It has been eight years since we turned a new page in the history of Ukraine. We have become stronger and grown in the struggle for our worthy future. The heroes of the war and the revolution motivate us to go firmly and confidently into the future. We carry the dignity and freedom for which they laid down their lives, like a flag high above their heads for the sake of memory and future generations.
Eternal memory and glory to the Heroes!
A low bow to their families.
Regards,
Rector of Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute Mykhailo Zgurovsky