Unknown Khreschatyk, or why wait until tomorrow?

Serene recent days - a good time for a walk in the fresh air. And for those who come to study in the KPI from other cities - the opportunity to begin acquaintance with Kyiv, with its historic sites. From where to begin? - Of course, from Khreshchatyk!

Kyiv. National toy museum. A walk to childhood.

All of us came from childhood. Certainly, everyone remembers their favourite toy (usually it is a thing made by your parents or yourself). National toy museum invites you to touch to the childhood (address: Klovskiy uzviz, 8 ).

Sundial on Kontraktova Square

Sundials are the most ancient mechanisms for determination of time. Mechanical clocks are considered to be very complex device. Another thing is sundials: a simple stick and shadow on a flat disc. However, like many antique mechanisms sundial is much more difficult than the mechanical one.

The most famous clock in Kyiv

A long time ago a wise inventor of the dial locked in a circle past, present and future, so that it never escaped and that no one could touch it. And the arrows, slowly moving from one mark to another, move the flow of time. Today's story is about the oldest and largest clock in Kyiv.

Leaf through the pages "For the Soviet engineer"

All groups are provided places for practice on the most advanced enterprises of our country. Sufficient to note such giants as GAZ of Molotov, HTZ, STZ, CTZ, VMS, Rostselmash, Novo-Kramatorsk Metallurgical Plant, Voroshilovgradsky Plant.

1902: The pictured moment of KPI history

Not so many photos of the Kiev Polytechnic Institute period of the first years of its existence has survived to our time. Most of them are in albums, which were presented to the first rector of the KPI V.L. Kirpichov in 1902.

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