On August 31, a solemn jubilee session of the teaching staff of the National Technical University of Ukraine "Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute" was held in the meeting room of the Academic Council of the University to celebrate its 125th anniversary.
The celebrations began with the National Anthem of Ukraine performed by the choir of the KPI Center of Culture and Arts. The participants of the meeting honored the memory of their colleagues who passed away over the past year and the heroes of the Polytechnic who gave their lives defending the independence, sovereignty and integrity of Ukraine in the war with russian aggressors. On behalf of the gathering, the cadets of the Institute of Special Communication and Information Protection of Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute laid flowers at the monument to the Heroes of the Heavenly Hundred.
The speeches at the anniversary session of the KPI faculty opened with a thorough report by the rector of the university, academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Mykhailo Zgurovsky on the 125-year history of the KPI and the four stages of its formation and evolution (its text version is given in this issue of our newspaper). "Today, Kyiv Polytechnics is responsible for maintaining the high authority of its predecessors and the duty to increase this authority at the new stage of the university's development. The prophetic words of the first rector of Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, Viktor Lvovich Kyrpychov, expressed 125 years ago, wishing his alma mater to "live, grow, become stronger, prosper for hundreds and thousands of years..." are coming true," he said at the end of his speech.
Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute received congratulatory letters from state leaders, heads of scientific institutions and foreign partners of the university. Representatives of the leadership of legislative and executive authorities, people's deputies of Ukraine, prominent public figures, scientists and colleagues from other universities came to congratulate the university on its anniversary.
The first deputy chairman of the Verkhovna Rada, KPI 2007 graduate Oleksandr Kornienko and the chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Subcommittee on Higher Education Yulia Hryshyna congratulated the university staff on its anniversary and presented awards of the Verkhovna Rada to a group of university teachers and researchers.
Commander of the Joint Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Hero of Ukraine Lieutenant General Serhiy Nayev read out the greetings from the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine General Valeriy Zaluzhnyi. He presented a large group of university employees with awards and diplomas from the Minister of Defense of Ukraine and the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. In addition, the staff of Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute was awarded a diploma of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine for active citizenship, patriotism and assistance to the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Vasyl Kremen, President of the National Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of Ukraine, also congratulated the university and its employees and announced the awarding of the Hryhorii Skovoroda Medal to the Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute.
The meeting room of the Academic Council also heard warm words from the Deputy Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine Mykhailo Vinnytskyi and other honorees.
Finally, the hosts Victoria Derkach and Yegor Shelest recited lines from the poetry of Vitaliy Ivashchenko, a Kyiv Polytechnic, teacher and scientist, poet and theater performer who unfortunately passed away this summer:
"We carry all the past in ourselves,
The soul of the people is created for centuries,
The world of Ukrainians is made up of dreamers and philosophers,
Poets, hard workers, singers.
And the anniversary session ended with the eternal anthem of students "Gaudeamus"...