Students, teachers, and staff of Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute - about eighty people in total - joined the 25th All-Ukrainian radio dictation, which traditionally took place in the KPI library on the eve of the Day of Ukrainian Writing and Language.
From year to year, this event unites the KPI community with all Ukrainians in different parts of Ukraine, the world and those who are currently defending our country at the front in love with their native language, culture and identity. This year, the All-Ukrainian Radio Dictation of Unity took place during the air raid, but this did not prevent the KPI students from completing it, as they were writing in a shelter.
‘Today's event is not about testing knowledge, it's about creating a symbol of unity for all Ukrainians, about building invisible bridges from our library between all Ukrainian cities, villages, schools, universities and dugouts. Today, it is not about trials, but about common identity and invincibility,’ says Yevheniia Kulyk, Director of the Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute Library.
This is the third time that Kyiv Polytechnic students have written a radio dictation during a full-scale invasion and the second time in person in our library, in the safe educational space of CLUST Space. The text of the dictation, titled ‘The Magic of the Voice’, was written by writer Oksana Zabuzhko as a gift to the 100th anniversary of Ukrainian Radio.