It has been reported that Yevhen Demyanenko (August 7, 1990 – April 22, 2023) has been killed in action. He graduated from the Institute of Special Communications and Information Protection at the National Technical University of Ukraine “KPI” in 2012.
🕯 Our university community is once again in mourning. News has emerged of the death of a KPI graduate who was defending Ukraine. 🇺🇦 Pavlo Muntian (February 15, 1982 — August 10, 2022).
🕯 Maria Bigun (Leut), a graduate of Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, was killed in the war (August 28, 2000 — February 21, 2026)
🕯 Volodymyr Muzh (May 12, 2001 – February 5, 2026), a graduate of our university, died in the war.
🕯 The Kyiv Polytechnic community is once again in mourning. On February 15, 2026, KPI graduate Denis “Fox” Gordeev, a lieutenant and commander of a platoon of unmanned aerial vehicles of the 156th Mechanized Brigade, was killed while performing a combat mission in Donetsk Oblast. He was 36 years old.
Yuriy Gogotsi, a member of the supervisory board of Igor Sikorsky KPI and a professor at Drexel University, has become a key figure in the creation of a new generation of stretchable OLED displays. He is one of the discoverers of MXenes, the materials that form the basis of this breakthrough technology, and led a research team from Drexel University in the United States and Seoul National University.
Our university graduate Vitaliy Bloshchytsya (03.03.1969 – 19.12.2025) died in the war...
Yury Gogotsi, Professor at Drexel University, USA, and alumnus of Ukraine’s Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, is on the Clarivate list of the most highly cited researchers in the world in 2025.
We have received information about the death of Yaroslav Pavlovich Nahirny (May 13, 1990 – September 16, 2024) in the war...
Yaroslav graduated from the Faculty of Welding in 2015 (the department is currently part of the E.O. Paton Educational and Scientific Institute of Materials Science and Welding).
Modern warfare is not only a confrontation between manpower and technology, but also a battle between robotic technologies. Today, unmanned systems perform a wide range of tasks: from reconnaissance and combat operations to rescuing the wounded and delivering provisions and ammunition. And we are not only talking about UAVs, but also ground-based robotic systems (GRS), which were created with the help of the hands, minds, and knowledge of Kyiv Polytechnic Institute students.
