Kyiv Politechnic

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.

The most famous dangerous weapon of World War II Katyusha is a multiple rocket launcher (MRL). Many monuments were built to honor Katyusha; many writers and poets dedicated their works to it. It left a mark in history of war and of technology forever and ever.

United by a dream. Yury Yanovsky and Serhiy Koroliov

August 27, 2002, marked the plant’s centenary of Yury Ivanovych Yankovsky’s birth, who was a Ukrainian writer, playwright, and a founder of Ukrainian cinema.

Mykola Yuliyovych Vagner was born on 11 (24) January 1893 in Saint Petersburg in the family of well-known zoologist Yuliy M. Vagner.  In 1898, after the moving to Kyiv Yuliy M. Vagner started working in Kyiv Polytechnic Institute.

There are not many universities in Kyiv in which educational and auxiliary buildings are all situated practically in the same area. KPI is one of them; consequently, it is extremely comfortable for staff, postgraduate and undergraduate students.

Each country, region, big cities, especially capitals may be characterized by their profoundly individual level of life safety.