From the first days of the war, many teachers and staff, alumni and students of the institute voluntarily and through mobilization joined the Red Army. M.F. Shpilko (Director of the Institute in 1937-1941) and A.S. Melnikov (Deputy Director in 1933-1941) who shortly before the outbreak of war led the Polytechnic Institute in Lvov participated in the fighting.
Military Engineer 3rd rank M.F. Shpilko died in the defense of Kiev in September 1941, Major A.S. Melnikov died during the liberation of the Right-Bank Ukraine in 1944. The graduate student S.F. Nezhentsev and the student V.A. Dukhanov gave their lives for the motherland. Among the defenders of the capital of Ukraine there were T.V. Shamrylo (a graduate of the Institute of the 30s) and the employee of the Institute F.P. Shaposhnik (both died in 1941). In the defense of Kiev there were killed the teacher M.M. Seleznev, student volunteers E.G. Garanina and Y.F. Zhuravsky. 39 defenders of Kiev after the war for a long time worked at the institute. [9]
Pupils of the Institute participated in the underground and partisan struggle. There were among them V.I. Khokhlov, martyred in 1943 in the dungeons of the Gestapo, F.F. Reznichenko, shot in 1942, the graduate student welding departmetn A.D. Osipenko (died 1943). The student G.P. Gvozdev was actively involved in Kiev underground activities. Drafted into the army before the war, in September 1941, his unit was surrounded, and during the occupation he carried out underground work at the railway station Kyiv-1. Assoc. Y.I. Bovsunovsky was also surrounded with his unit in July 1941, and in 1942-1943 he continued to fight in the guerrilla S.A. Kovpak[1, p. 4; 10, p. 41].
By the end of the Great Patriotic War, teachers, employees and students of the Institute fought on all fronts. Student P. Ovsyannikov was killed in the battle near Kharkov in October 1941. Y.S. Smolkin, the participant in the battle for Moscow died in 1942 from wounds. S.B. Beniev and I. I. Rogovy were killed in the Battle of Stalingrad. and G.A. Sobol – on the Kursk Bulge. Member of the Battle of Kursk Assoc. P.F. Bruyakin died of his wounds in August 1943. The graduate of 1938 G.I. Berestorud went to the front in the summer of 1941, participated in the liberation battles from the Dnieper to the Volga, from Stalingrad to Perekop. In the battle for the liberation of Crimea HSU G.I. Berestorud was killed. His monument was erected in Melitopol.
Assoc. V.A. Guy, the graduate student K. Chuntulov students S.I. Altyntsev, I.I. Ivanisenko, J.S. Knish, Y.M. Korzh, V.G. Naryzny, V.V. Samoilenko, M. M. Shlumukov were killed when crossing the Dnieper and in other battles for the liberation of Ukraine. In the battles for the liberation of Belarus, Moldova, Baltic there were killed the students V.V. Savelenko, V.G. Skvortsov, K.K. Trigubenko, S.D. Yatsenko. In Poland there were killed the student O.S. Lozanov, a graduate student E.D. Serdyukov. Storming Berlin there were killed I.G. Korsun - graduate in 1941, the officer B. Yu. Shumsky (brother graduate student P. Yu Shumsky), who died in the autumn of 1941, near Kiev [9].
After the war, hundreds of soldiers returned to the institute and continued their work. The difficulties that they have suffered, their feats of arms convincingly evidenced by the numerous military awards.
Associate professors A.P. Ornatskii, O.S.Semenov, I.K. Fedchenko, the Head of the Special Faculty L.A. Radchenko, senior lecturers I.M. Mogilnyy, C.O. Rebrov, post-graduate I.M. Chizhenko were fighting from the first weeks of the war to the Victory Day on many fronts. The commander of air defenses A.P. Ornatskii went all the way from Moscow to Berlin. Tank officer O.S. Semenov participated in defensive battles of the Southern Front of the Dnieper to the North Caucasus, and then in the victorious offensive of the 2nd Ukrainian and 1st Byelorussian Fronts reached Berlin. The company commander and then chief of staff of the battalion S.A. Rebrov fought in engineering units, in defensive battles he went from Kiev to Rostov and then drove the Nazis from Stalingrad to Berlin. In the engineering brigade of special purpose in defensive battles from Sula to the Volga and in the offensive from Stalingrad to Berlin there took place the commander path of L.A. Radchenko. From platoon commander to communications engineer army of defense of Kiev for Stalingrad and Kursk battles for liberation of Prague it was the front road of I.M. Chizhenko. I.M. Mogilnyy walked the roads of war through the defensive battles of the Dnieper to the Volga, and then in the attack on Stalingrad to the Elbe, I.K. Fedchenko- from Kyiv defense to storm Konigsberg. In the postwar years, these veterans became professors. I.M. Chizhenko became the Academic of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, winner of the Lenin Prize, A.P. Ornatsky - the honored worker of science and technology.
The Assoc. M.L. Kalnibolotsky, teachers I.M. Vnukov and A.F. Chizhsky, researcher M. Yu. Ierusalimov, graduate A.M. Firstov, L.A. Byalotsky participated in the defensive battles 1941-1942 years. From defense of Kyiv to liberation the Ukraine – this was the battle path of the officer M.L. Kalnibolotsky. I.M. Vnukov and A.F. Chizhsky passed fought bitter routes departing from the Dnieper to the Volga, took part in the Battle of Stalingrad and the liberation of their native land. I.M. Vnukov came to Prague and Berlin. The junior lieutenant M.J. Ierusalimov took part in the defense of Kiev and later fought in the Guards mortar units, participated in breaking the siege of Leningrad, has completed his battle way in a rank of major, was seriously injured.The officer L.A. Byalotsky fought since 1942 in tank units, participated in breaking the siege of Leningrad, the liberation of the Ukrainian land, ended the war in East Prussia. The battle way of the officer A.N. Firstov ran from the defense of Kiev and Moscow to the storming of Berlin. In the postwar years, M. Yu. Ierusalimov became a professor, A.F. Chizhsky - Dean of the Faculty, L.A. Byalotsky and A.M. Firstov - Associate Professors, I.M. Vnukov - a senior lecturer. Some of the former graduates returned after the war to the institute. Thus, A.I. Butuzov, which in 1940 was sent to work in the Lviv Polytechnic Institute, in the first days of the war went to the front and took part in the defense of Kiev, Stalingrad and Kursk, the liberation of Ukraine and Belarus. YA Babenko in defensive battles went from Western Ukraine to the North Caucasus, and then in the liberation offensive - in Berlin. I.K. Kozinenko in 1941 -1942 years was a platoon commander in the South-Western Front. Kiev factory engineer P.P. Ornatsky participated in the fighting air defense units of the Southwestern, Voronezh, and the 1st Ukrainian Front. Military equipment expert M.I. Golubnichy was the participant of the Battle of Stalingrad, the battle for the liberation of the Baltic, the defeat of the Japanese Kwantung Army. In the postwar period, A.I. Butuzov, Yu.O.Babenko, P.P. Ornatsky became professors and I.K. Kozinenko - Dean of the Faculty of Chemical Technology. M.I. Golubnichy returned to the institute in 1970 and worked as an assistant professor.
The students who had gone to fight from the institute and returned to him to complete the training had various front destinies and postwar paths . The undergraduates V.M. Vinoslavsky and V.I. Gnatovsky were sent to wok at the military departments. From November 1942 to August 1943 V.M. Vinoslavsky fought in the anti-aircraft artillery on the central front in the battles at Kursk was seriously wounded. Artillery officer V.I. Gnatovsky participated in the defense of Moscow and the Arctic. A.G. Bondar and V.G. Beletskaya voluntarily went to school guerrilla radio operators. After graduation, V.G. Beletskaya fought in 1943-1944 with the Belarusian partisan, and A.G. Bondar in the partisan division of the headquarters of the Western and 3rd Belorussian Fronts. After the war, they defended their diplomas, post-graduate degree: A.G. Bondar and V.M. Vinoslavsky became professors, V.G. Beletskaya and V.G. Gnatovsky - Associate Professors (for several years A.G. Bondar and V.G. Gnatovsky worked as the vice-rector of the institute).
The War interrupted studies of the students S.V. Romanenko, M.V. Carenko, J.A. Bratus, A.D. Kotvitsky, G.I. Vasyuk and G.M. Ovsiyenko. S.V. Romanenko was a platoon and mortar battery commander. Five times he was wounded, and for Military Merit was awarded four battle honors. M.V. Tsarevich began fighting near Voronezh, was promoted from private to major. Since 1942 until the Victory Day there were at the front J.A. Bratus and A.D. Kotvitsky. J.A. Bratus was the gunner. He took part in the Battle of Stalingrad, crossed the Dnieper and took part in the liberation of Kiev. Tank man A. Kotvitsky began to fight on Demyansk bridgehead, participated in the Battle of Kursk, the liberation of Ukraine. G.I.Vasuk was the battery "Katyusha" commander, fought for the liberation of Ukraine. Fighter G.M. Ovsiyenko participated in defensive battles for Ukraine in 1941. He was seriously wounded. In the postwar years, these veterans became teachers, and S.V. Romanenko – head of the Department ( In 1957 his life cut short due to injury).
In 1944 M.S. Ilchenko, A.D. Trubenok, A.G. Shapovalenko recovering from severe injuries came to study in the Institute. Since the beginning of the war up to the October 1942 Marine Corps sergeant M.S. Ilchenko fought on the Southern Front. A.D. Trubenok as the ordinary fighter participated in the defense of Kiev and Moscow, as the sergeant - in the defense of Stalingrad. He was awarded the Order of Glory III level. A.G. Shapovalenko participated in Kyiv people's militia. As the platoon commander he fought on the Volkhov front. A.J. Bokrinska, who worked at the hospital at Stalingrad, Southern and 4th Ukrainian fronts, became a student. In the postwar years, M.S. Ilchenko and A.D. Trubenok became professors, A.J. Bokrinska and A.G. Shapovalenko - lecturers, heads of research laboratories.
Rows of student veterans were greatly expanded by post-war demobilization from the Soviet Army. Among the enrolled full-time education in the 1945-1947 there were veterans A.V. Belotsky, D.Y. Glukhov, A.F. Domrachev, L.G. Lubenets, K.G. Samofalov, I. K. Trush, V.V. Khilchevsky. The fighting way I.K. Trush went through from the commander of artillery gun to the commander of artillery corps. Military expert L.G. Lubenets provide air operations since the defense of Leningrad to storm Konigsberg. Cadet A.F. Domrachev fought in the Marines near Novorossiisk and Sevastopol (until he was seriously wounded 1942). Petty Officer of the Navy C.G. Samofalov took part in the defense of Odessa, Sevastopol, the North Caucasus, and ended the war in the Pacific Fleet. With the summer offensive in 1943 and the liberation of Kiev it was began fighting way A.V.Belotsky and V.V. Khilchevsky and finished outside the homeland. D.Y. Glukhov was first gunner, then the signalman, fought on the 4th Ukrainian Front and ended the war, freeing Austria and Czechoslovakia. In the postwar period, these veterans have gone from students to professors, and C.G. Samofalov in 1982 became corresponding member of Ukrainian Academy of Sciences.
After demobilization the veterans G.G. Vrzhosek, E.P. Krasovskii, N.N. Mukhin, M.K. Filippok, M.S. Samotryasov, V.J. Shlyuko, war veterans V.D. Zhogot, J.G. Radchenko were enrolled in the Institute. Artilleryman G.G. Vrzhosek started fighting at the Bryansk front, and ended the war in Berlin. E.P. Krasovskii participated in the defense of Kiev, in the battles from Voronezh to Romain. The commander of an artillery platoon M.M.Mukhin fought on the Kalinin Front. Pilot M.K. Pilipko participated in the battles at Kursk and ended the war as the squadron commander. M.S. Samotryasov went from platoon commander to Assistant Chief of Staff of the regiment. Tank man V.J. Shlyuko went from Stalingrad to Czechoslovakia. The signaler Yu.G. Radchenko from 1942 participated in the fighting air defense units on the Voronezh Front and the liberation of Kiev. From the beginning of 1943 V.D.Zhogot worked in the hospital of the Voronezh Front. In the institute these veterans have gone from students to professors, and prof. V.Y. Shlyuko headed the department of high-temperature materials and powder metallurgy.
Many soldiers studied in the institute in the postwar years in evening and correspondence departments, including Heroes of the Soviet Union S.G. Bogaychuk, awarded the highest award for participation in the Battle of Kursk, M.I. Biloyvanenko - for the crossing of the Dnieper. Completed in the KPI engineering education G. I.Golikov, who in March 1944 was the commander of an infantry battalion and participated in Uman operation, received the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. After the war he graduated from the institute, then a military postgraduate. Since 1970 he worked as an assistant professor at the institute.
Many demobilized soldiers came to the institute for teaching and administrative work. In the first post-war five years the veterans I.P. Moskalenko, N.I. Belsky, B.B. Umov worked in the Institute. Major I.P. Moskalenko’s fighting way passed from Stalingrad to the Baltic. The driver B.B. Umov participated in combat operations since the early days of the war until the capture of Berlin. Belsky Since 1943 until the Victory Day M.I. was fighting during the liberation of Ukraine, Poland, Czechoslovakia, and the storming of Berlin. In the institute I.P. Moskalenko has gone from a senior laboratory assistant to the vice-rector, M.I. Belsky many years headed the laboratory, and B.B. Umove worked as a senior laboratory assistant and training master.
In the 50s there came to work in the Institute veterans B.M. Birin, M.V. Vasilenko, Y.L.Daletskii, I.P. Dubinets, M.S. Zhuravlev, S.I. Kalenchuk, M.S.Korol, G.I. Moskalenko, B.F. Natarov, A.V. Ralko, M.V. Savgir, F.P. Yaremchuk. From the beginning to the end of the war B.F.Nafarov fought in the communications unit, participated in the defense of Kiev and Stalingrad, in the liberation of Sevastopol and ended the war as the captain, freeing Czechoslovakia. Employee military research laboratory A.V. Ralko participated in the defense of Leningrad and battle-tested new weapons on the Leningrad front. M.V. Vasilenko fought the summer of 1941, near Kiev, was wounded and after recovery was directed to the rear in the training units. Y.L.Daletskii participated in the defeat of the Japanese army. Artillery scout F.P. Yaremchuk fought in the battles for the liberation of Belarus and Poland, smashing the enemy in Germany. In the postwar years, they headed faculties and departments, became professors and Y.L.Daletskii in 1992 was elected academician of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
S.I. Kalenchuk went from platoon commander to deputy division commander in the war years. M.S. Korol led the underground in the Kyiv region, and since 1943 he fought for the liberation of Ukraine. The officers M.S. Zhuravlev, G.I. Moskalenko, N.V. Savgir were severely wounded at the front. M.S. Zhuravlev kept the defense of the Southern Bug to the Volga, took part in the battles of Stalingrad and Kursk, the liberation of Ukraine, Romania, Yugoslavia finished fighting way intelligence chief cabinet. GI Moskalenko fought at Stalingrad, Kursk, liberated Ukraine and Poland. MV Savgir was the participant of the defense of Leningrad, the liberation of Belarus and Ukraine - the commander of a cavalry platoon. Pilot I.P. Dubinets had to fight first commander of machine-gun compartment at Stalingrad, and from 1943 - attack aircraft of the 3rd Ukrainian Front. Navy officer B.M. Birin participated in the liberation of Sevastopol and Leningrad. In the postwar years S.I. Kalenchuk and M.S. Korol headed the departments, M.S. Zhuravlev, G.I. Moskalenko and M.V. Savgir became assistant professors, and B.M. Birin and I.P. Dubinets headed educational laboratories.
In 50-60s military department of the institute was added with the officers with extensive front-line experience. At that time the department was headed by Major-General L.I. Chemerinsky and Colonel A.G. Nikolaev, and the teachers were A.M. Babitsky, P.I. Bandurko, V.I. Belokopytov, D.D. Gudovich, G.P. Danin, B.I. Rushuk. His front path L.I. Chemerinsky started with the defense of Moscow, led the defense corps headquarters, and ended the war chief of staff of the army air defense. A.G. Nikolaev has gone from battery commander to deputy commander of the regiment, fought in the West and the North Caucasus Front, in the Maritime Army. From the defense of Sevastopol until the liberation of Kiev it was the fighting way in the air defense forces of General P. Danin. A.M. Babitsky 17-year-old volunteer went to the front in the summer of 1941, participated in the defense of Odessa and the North Caucasus, ended the war in Berlin. P. Bandurko went from platoon commander to chief of staff of the air defense regiment. D.D. Gudovich fought in the artillery units of the South and the North Caucasus Front, Maritime Army. B.I. Rushuk participated in the defense of Kiev and in the battles of Stalingrad. Since 1943 V.I. Belokopytov was the commander of reconnaissance, participated in the liberation of Smolensk and Belarus.
University staff was added with the front-line soldiers in the 60s and early 70s. At that time, V.A. Ganov, A.J. Gorbachev, V.V. Dovbischenko, M.L. Zavinovsky, A.F. Kichigin, M.S. Mozharovsky, M.P. Panchenko, F.G. Scooby, F.Y. Gorovsky began working in the institute.
The platoon commander M.S. Mozharovsky started the war in the battle for the liberation of Ukraine and completed her commander antitank defense near Prague. F.Y. Gorovsky participated in defensive battles of the Southwestern Front, and then in the defense and liberation of the North Caucasus. The platoon commander A.F. Kichigin fought in the artillery units near Moscow and the North Caucasus, liberated Novorossiisk and Kerch. In early 1943 due to injury near Kharkov it was ended front path officer MP Panchenko.
Later, these veterans have become professors. Officer A.J. Gorbachev fought at Stalingrad, liberated Donbass, Western Ukraine. M.L. Zavinovsky from the beginning to the end of the war was the aircraft mechanic, participated in the defense and liberation of Ukraine and Stalingrad. Front path foreman V.V/ Dovbischenko passed from the defense Kiev in the Battle of Kursk to the liberation of Czechoslovakia. F.G. Scooby started the war as a private soldier in defensive battles in the North Caucasus, and finished a radio operator military intelligence. Among his military decorations - the Order of Glory III level. The same order was awarded V.A. Ganov, who was the commander of the mortar crew and has gone from the liberation of Belarus, Poland to Berlin. In the Institute A.Y. Gorbachev, V.A. Ganov, M.L. Zavinovsky, F.G. Scooby became associate professors, and V.V. Dovbischenko worked for several years as the vice-rector.
After a long service there came to the KPI veterans L.I. Vinnikovsky, E.I. Gorelik, G.M. Kisliak, P.M. Ponomarenko, M.V. Sadovin, I.F. Silaev, R.D. Tsirendorzhiev. During the war, L.I. Vinnikovsky was chief of staff of the division and corps, fought under Demyansk, was a member of breaking the siege of Leningrad and the liberation of Belarus. Senior officer M.V. Sadovin participated in defensive battles of the Dnieper to the Don, and then - in the liberation of Kiev and other Ukrainian cities. Officer tanker P.N. Ponomarenko walked the roads of war from Bug to Volga and then to Czechoslovakia. Commander of the platoon, company, battalion G.M. Kislyak participated in the Battle of Moscow and Kursk, the liberation of Belarus and Poland. I.F. Silaev started the war on the western frontier, in defensive battles came to Rostov, and then took part in offensive operations. Fighter pilot E.I. Gorelikov started the war in the battle for the liberation of Ukraine and completed a squadron commander in the Berlin operation. He was awarded with seven orders. R.D. Tsirendorzhiev passed the way from Moscow to Germany. In the Institute L.I. Vinnikovsky, M.V. Sadovin, .P.M Ponomarenko worked as the lecturers, and E.I. Gorelik, G.M. Kisliak, I.F. Silaev, R.D. Tsirendorzhiev still work at the Institute.
E.V. Grabchenko, K.V. Zhadovska, L.I. Motuzko, G.M. Popov worked in the institute for a long time. An employee of the Corps’s Staff K.V. Zhadovska, freeing her homeland, has passed the way from the front-line defense of Kiev to the storming of Berlin. E.V. Grabchenko since the end of 1941 was a member of an underground in Rostov-on-Don, and from 1942 - radio operator in the headquarters of the Transcaucasian Front, took part in the fighting, freeing Crimea from fascists. L.I. Motuzko started her military way as the radio operator of air defense command post near Voronezh in 1942, participated in the Battle of Kursk and the liberation of Ukraine. Radio operator G.M. Popova participated in the battles of Stalingrad and the battle for the Dnieper. In the Institute in the post-war years they worked in different departments, offices, departments.
In the battles for the liberation of Moscow, Leningrad, Stalingrad and the Caucasus there participated about 90 veteran soldiers, in the Battle of Kursk and the liberation of Ukraine - 112 (of which 45 were released Kiev), fighting for the liberation of Poland, Romania, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Austria, Czechoslovakia - 70, in the storming of Konigsberg and Berlin - about 60 veterans {9] Institute. 40th anniversary of the victory they celebrated in their home high school team.
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