Kyiv Politechnic

There were a lot of anniversaries of the chair of automation and control in technical systems (AUTS) in memory of its founders. One of the authors of this article is Ksenia Veremiyivna Biba.

According to the statistics, each year 3 million people die all around the world from diseases caused by tobacco. In Ukraine - 110 thousand people, in Kiev about 5.5 thousand. Every ten seconds a person dies from smoking.

Ivan Gonchar Museum was founded in September 1993.

There is no need to list all the facts so that a sensible person may find out the harm of smoking. Firstly, about 25% of smokers die of cancer, heart diseases or a stroke.

Leonhard Euler is considered to be the most prolific mathematician of all time. He wrote his treatises in a simple manner, clearly and plainly, as a man of pen and ink writes letters to his friends.

Participant liberation of Kyiv, a former lecturer of physics in KPI,  retired Major, Associate Candidate of Sciences Mikhail Velichko mentions battles on Bukrin foothold, in which he was.

A retired colonel, Volodymyr Mykolayovych Zorin, a participant of liberation of Kiyv, who graduated from the heat-and-power engineering department , told our correspondent  V.Y. Melnyk about events, which he had to survive.

Victor Glushkov was born August 24, 1923 r.u Rostov-on -Don in the family of a mining engineer. In 1929 the family moved in Shahty. In June 1941 Victor Glushkov with honors graduated from high school №1 Shahty .He was going to join the Physics Department of Moscow State University .

When you take a glance at massive KPI campus buildings where almost 40 000 students are gaining knowledge, it is hard to imagine what it looked like after Kyiv had been liberated. .

Bencion Moyseyovich Vul was born on May, 22, 1903 in Bila Tserkva, Kyiv’s region in a blacksmith’s family.