Konstantin Alekseevich Kalinin (05/02[24/01]/1887, Warsaw- 23/10/1938, Voronezh) was the outstanding aircraft designer. He was convicted and executed “for the undermining the Soviet aircraft industry”. August 10, 1955 he was rehabilitated (posthumously). Graduate of KPI.
124 years have passed since the foundation stone of the Main Building of Kyiv Polytechnic Institute was laid.
For more than a century, our alma mater has been a center of ambitious youth and scientific community, technical development and innovations.
Today we honor the memory of an outstanding Ukrainian aircraft designer and Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute graduate Konstantin Alekseevich Kalinin.
The monument to the outstanding aircraft designer Konstantin Alekseevich Kalinin was opened August 28, 2014.
August 28, the day before the start of the new school year, the Avenue of Stars of the University and the monument to the outstanding native aircraft designer Kostantin Kalinin were opened in NTUU "KPI".
Among the giant aircraft that were built at different times in different countries of the world, a place of honor belongs to structures created in Ukraine.
The Kostantin Oleksandrovich Kalinin portrait occupied the honorary place in the gallery of outstanding graduates Kyiv Polytechnic. And this place belongs to him by the right. However not everyone today remembers what this person is famous for.
