Borys Paton, the head of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and the Institute of Electro-welding, which bears the name of his father, not only became a kind of symbol of the industry, but also made a lot of effort to bring it to the international level. It was he who helped to add Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute to the international community of professionals and experts in connection technologies and processes with which these technologies are inextricably linked
