Kyiv. This short sonorous word is a name of the city, whose roots go deeply in the ancient time. Its history totals more than 1500 years. This is one of the oldest Slavic cities, the capital of the early feudal state Kyiv Rus', the city known in the history as "mother of the cities of Russians".
The Museum of the History of the City of Kyiv has once again pleasantly surprised its visitors. This time, with a festive Christmas and New Year's exhibition. The exhibition recreates the atmosphere of the old Kyiv of the early twentieth century during Christmas and New Year, where folk traditions were combined with fashionable European trends. So visitors can travel through time to the most interesting locations of the pre-holiday city.
At the plenary meeting of the III session of the Kyiv City Council of the IX convocation on September 19, 2024, the deputies decided by a majority vote to rename the street where the building No. 28 of Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute stands in honor of the outstanding Ukrainian scientist and politician M.A. Pavlovsky, whose entire professional career and scientific achievements are associated with Kyiv Polytechnic.
On May 10, the Art Gallery of the KPI Center for Culture and Arts opened an exhibition "Kyiv - What kind of city?"
On the basis of the memorandum on cooperation between National Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute”, the All-Ukrainian Innovation Ecosystem "Sikorsky Challenge Ukraine", and Kyiv City State Administration, an accelerator for urban initiatives "Sustainable Cit
Rector of Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute Michael Zgurovsky, Director of the Innovation Holding "Sikorsky Challenge" LLC Oleksii Strutsynskyi, and a mayor of the capital Vitali Klitschko signed a memorandum on cooperation in the implementation of innovative development projects in Kyiv.
The old maps of Kyiv, not far from the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, near the khutir of Hrushky, show land marked as the Farm of the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute. What was this now forgotten farm?
June 6 (in the old style - May 25) marks 132 years since the birth of Igor Ivanovych Sikorsky. Today, he does not need additional presentation, it is not necessary to tell the students and staff of Kyiv Polytechnic, which bears his name, who Igor Ivanovych is.
On April 9 scientists of the World Data Centre for Geoinformatics and Sustainable Development, which work in the structure of Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute under the aegis of the International Science Council, published the results of the express research on the spread of coronavirus disease in Kyiv.
The elegant blue building on Antonovych and Tolstoi streets in Kyiv is visibly far away.
