Jan Graff was born in 1885. In 1914 he graduated from the Faculty of Engineering of KPI. From 1919 in Poland he took part in the construction of the railway Vydzev - Zgierz and Zgierz - Lenchyka.

December 22 to our editor’s office came gray-haired man. He was friendly smiling, he introduced us as a former student of KPI Utkur Hadaybayev. 40 years have been passed since the end of the university, and on this day his classmates meet to mark this anniversary date.

The department of physical chemistry of the KPI was established 105 years ago. As science and university subject physical chemistry was just born then, and was the first such department in the Russian Empire. Not only the name but also the themes of the department seemed unusual then.

Creativity in engineering is the ability to create different things and products, having features of novelty and uniqueness, usefulness and value, elegance and simplicity.

Nobody made poetry flowers as Catherine Bilokur ... In a letter to employees of the Central House of folk art, she wrote:

Leon Borowski was born in 1884 in Humany in the Podillia of the family doctor. High School graduated there in 1903 in the Kiev Polytechnic Institute in 1913 received the bachelor's Civil Engineering Department.

Witold Kazimierz Vezheyskyy (Witold Kazimierz Wierzejski) was born in 1882 in the village Derebchyn (Yampolsky district) in the Podillia, the son of a sugar factory worker. He studied at the school in Vinnytsia. In 1900 he became a student of mechanical department of Kyiv Polytechnic Institute.

Nina Yakovlevna Averbukh, the graduate of KPI of 1947, the student, the friend of the family S. I. Tetelbauma and his colleague on special production No. 2 (the only woman in collective!).

The English Queen Anne once visited the famous Greenwich Observatory. The Queen was unpleasantly surprised when she learned what a small salary director of the observatory gets, and wished to increase it.