Vivat, crescat, floreat! Gracious sovereigns! ... The Polytechnic Institute is a higher educational institution assigned for the training of engineers, that is, as the name itself indicates, people of genius capable of inventing and arranging a new one.
It is known that first director of KPI V.L.Kirpichov paid great attention to the selection of qualified personnel.
At the end of the XIX century the economic development of Russia scored a rapid pace. Coal, metallurgy, machinery, light industry, food industry, agriculture were developed intensively. However, there was an acute shortage of engineers, technicians and agronomists. According to official data in 1892 from 27132 technical managers of Russian factories and plants only 2076 has the technical education, ie 7.5%, higher professional education - less than 1% [1, p. 55].
According to the social status student environment was heterogeneous. In prerevolutionary Russia, the door of high school, as well as all the way to education, was opened primarily for the wealthy.
Today, when it comes to improving the quality of learning, usually it refers to the training of teachers, quality of teaching, providing equipment and training aids and the like.
The decoration of the assembly hall of the KPI first building, large physical lecture hall of mechanical department and two lobbies adjoining to them continued till autumn of 1901 and it was made in the Romanesque style upon the projects of the architect A. Kobelev.
The traffic artery(from which the main academic building was photographed) has been known as Zhytomyr and Brest-Litovsk highway since the first half of XIX century.
Actively developing, the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute became the base of broadening and strengthening the network of universities in Kyiv and Ukraine.
August 31, 1898 has gone down in history as the birthday of our glorious University. That same day, the first director of the KPI Professor Victor L.
First I came to the editor’s office in 1967, when i was a student of 2nd year acousto-electric faculty. The desire to write articles and better to learn the Ukrainian language I had long ago and this led me came to the editor’s office. I met Boris Samiylovych Mirsky.
