Culture

The Trade Union Committee of Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, with the support of the Ukrainian-Japanese Center, organized the Japanese Summer School for Children for the second time. The cultural program was designed to introduce participants to Japanese culture, language, traditions, and arts.

🎥 For the third time since the beginning of Russia's full-scale invasion, the Kyoto International Choir organized a musical telebridge on Kyiv Day between the two sister cities as a gesture of support for the people of Kyiv and solidarity with Ukraine.

Igor Sikorsky KPI hosted the charity “Artistic Spring”—an evening that brought together students, faculty, staff, and guests of KPI around creativity and a good cause. On the stage of the Center for Culture and Arts, creative groups from the Center performed: contemporary dance numbers, folk motifs in original interpretations, and vocal performances by the best artists of Kyiv Polytechnic Institute.

Living stories about poet Maksym Rylsky—Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (1943), Chairman of the Writers’ Union of Ukraine (1943–1946), director of the Institute of Art Studies, Folklore, and Ethnography (1944–1964)—were heard by students, faculty, and staff of KPI, as well as everyone who visited the Scientific and Technical Library on March 17 for a meeting with his grandson—also named Maksym Rylsky, a writer, public figure, and Honored Journalist of Ukraine.

Kyiv Polytechnic is not only the cradle of engineering education, from which a host of scientific and educational institutions and manufacturing enterprises have emerged. It can also be called a nurturing mother who has embraced new departments, enriching the range of technical training.

On December 25, the mysteries and magic of the Christmas and New Year holidays begin. And they are ushered in by the Christian world’s second-largest holiday after Easter—Christmas. Traditionally, it is celebrated not only by believers of various denominations but also by those who are indifferent to religion.

Our newspaper (see “Kyiv Polytechnic” No. 1-2, 2024) has already reported on the mosaic panel “Science,” which adorns the facade of Building 18 and is included in the List of Identified Cultural Heritage Objects of Kyiv. However, its creator, monumentalist artist Fedir Tetyanych (1942–2007), is known mainly to specialists. But the first performer of independent Ukraine, whose ideas were ahead of their time and remain relevant to this day, does not deserve to be forgotten.

Japan came to life at Kyiv Polytechnic University!

Building integrity in the higher education system is one of the priorities of Ukraine's current education policy.