History of the university

Every morning, metro trains bring thousands and thousands of passengers to the Politekhnichnyi Instytut  station.

In 1896, the Kievlyanin newspaper No. 9 published an article by the engineer of communications, a political leader, a real statistic advisor to Arthur Adolfovich Abrahamson, "Where to be a new technical institute".

I’m proud of the fact that I have been working in the best technical university of Ukraine for 58 years. Of course, I keep an eye on all publications dedicated to its history and present days.

The Department of Physics at the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute was created at the same time as the institute – in 1898 its organizer and first director was Professor of Kyiv University Georgy DeMetz (1861-1947).

Of the 120 years of existence of Kyiv Polytechnic, 100 fell on the turbulent XX century. Due to changes in the political system and the current situation in the country, there have been constant changes in the name of our university.

So, in order.

During the jubilee year of the university the Scientific-Technical Library named after H.I. Denysenko a series of events to celebrate this important date were conducted: historical lectures, book exhibitions, publications and performances in the press and on the radio.

The University Library has a unique «Collection of photographic images of the Kiev Polytechnic Institute of the Emperor Alexander II, taken for the album, presented to the former Director V.L. Kirpichev in 1902» in their funds.

A lecture by a well-known Kyiv historian Myhailo Kalynitsky “Outstanding Kyiv architects of the early twentieth century - employees of the Polytechnic Institute” from the cycle of historical studies “Think about it” gathered on 24th of August in the NTB students and university lecturers, city tou

Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute Library launches the project "Save KPI’s history". We want to save unique testimonies of the university's diverse life and we will be happy to get some printed and unprinted gifts. We collect various materials, it can be:

The monorail road with a linear electric drive was developed in the 1960s and 1970s at the Department of Automation of electromechanical systems and electrical drives (AEMS-ED) with the participation of the Department of Electric Machines at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering (now FEA)