Forum for Nuclear Safety: Lessons of Wisdom
Horlytskyy Lev Izrailevich. Creator of victory’s weapons
Modern war - it's not just war of tanks, aircraft, manpower, this along with everything else, as well war of scientific laboratories.
Academic I.V. Kurchatov
Lev Izrailevich Horlytskyy is the earliest explorer of a new kind of weapon - self-propelled guns (SPG). He is the chief designer of SPG: SU-122, SU-85, SU-100, which were taken up in 1942-1944 and have proven to be very effective fighting machine.
Department of Instrumentation - 50!
Department of Instrumentation was established in February 1961.
On the 50th anniversary of the first human space flight
April 12, 1961 Soviet citizen Yuri Gagarin on the spaceship "Vostok" for the first time in human history has made space flight. The news of this event immediately spread through the entire planet.
The State Emblem of Ukraine
Article 20 of the Constitution declares that the small State Emblem of Ukraine is the sign of the Princely State of Volodymyr the Great - a gold trident.
Shevchenko’s Bukvar
Taras Shevchenko is a prominent Ukrainian poet, novelist, playwright, painter, political and public figure. He was all-round talented man with diverse interests. Taras Shevchenko devoted his life to the Ukrainian nation. Independent Ukraine full of happy people respecting mother-tongue and theirs own history was his main dream.
Jean Foucault and his pendulum
I will not hide that I was honored to have the opportunity to attend and speak at this important event, although held it was held in our own KPI, but without exaggeration, it is necessary to talk about an event of national importance. I am referring to the opening of 24 February 2011, I repeat, in Ukraine, this Foucault pendulum.
Smogorzhevsky Olexander Stepanovich. To the 115th anniversary of the birth
The outstanding Ukrainian mathematician, talented teacher OlexanderStepanovich Smogorzhevsky (1896-1969) worked at the Kiev Polytechnic Institute starting from October 1930 and to the end of his life.
Volodymyr Grigoriev and Fyodor Tereshchenko. Different destinies, common path
Names of Kyiv aircraft designers Volodymyr Grigoriev and Fyodor Tereshchenko are surrounded by an aura of mystery.
Pushkin's monuments in Kyiv
The «KP» №3 for 2011 was about Pushkin's monuments in our city. Asked where's the last of them came right answers, at 9 Kudryavska street near the Pushkin museum. Our regular reader, the former head of the department of NTB method Vyacheslav Dzyhun indagated it in details.