Avenue of Stars: Names Our University is Proud of

During its 120-year history, Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute trained and gave rise to the successful career of hundreds of thousands of engineers. Prominent inventors, famous creators of new technology, organizers of production, and scientists are among his graduates and workers.

Artur Veniaminovich Prakhovnyk (1940 – 2012)

Energy scientist, teacher and organizer of higher education, doctor of technical sciences, professor, Honored Power Engineer of the CIS (2001), Honored Power Engineer of Ukraine, Honored Scientist and Engineer of Ukraine (1998), laureate of the State Prize of Ukraine in Science and Technology (20

Ivan Trofimovich Shvets (1901 – 1983)

Outstanding scientist in the field of energy and heat engineering, doctor of technical sciences (1947), professor (1931), Dean of the Department of Energy (Thermal Engineering) of the Kyiv Industrial Institute, Head of the Department of Steam Engine.