Up to the XIII century, people knew only nine chemical elements: seven metals - gold, silver, copper, tin, iron, lead and mercury, as well as two non-metals - sulfur and carbon.

During the visit to Japan the delegation of “KPI” visited Soka University (Tokyo), where the ceremony of awarding the rector of "KPI" M.Z.

The more rare exhibits the more interesting the exhibition. In the "Electronics" section of State Polytechnic Museum the attention is attracted by the world's first ultrasonic motor, which was developed in Ukraine in the Kiev Polytechnic Institute. The history is as follows.

On 26-28 April a delegation consisting of the University Rector M. Zgurovsky, his assistant O.L.Poptsovoyi and scientific secretary of the UNESCO Chair "Higher Technical Education, Applied System Analysis and Informatics" prof.

"You want to be healthy - run, if you want to be smart - run, if you want to be happy - run" - so it seems, said the ancient Greeks. They knew exercise. Not for nothing they invented the Olympic Games.

"Manuscripts do not burn ..." - and sometimes it is still true!.. Village Savarka on Bohuslavschyni. Shed, where the teacher Maria Ishchenko and spouses Chalyh lived in the twenties of the twentieth century...

This is one of the largest art museums in Ukraine. It is located on the territory of the National Kyiv-Pechersk Historical and Cultural Reserve in the former metropolitan chambers and the adjacent house of the Annunciation Church, a landmark of architecture of VIII - beg. XX century.

Anton Alexander Skudra (Antoni Aleksander Skudro) was born in 1882 in Mogilev on Podillya. He graduated from the gymnasium in Kishinev, studied at the Kiev university at mathematical faculty. In 1901. He was expelled from the university for participation in illegal students strike.

Shanyavsky Karol (Karol Szaniawski) was born in 1891 in Ukraine, Cherkassy district, Rotmystrovtsi. His father was a family doctor. He graduated from high school in Yelyzavethrad (now Kirovograd) and in 1909 was enrolled to the mechanical department of Kyiv Polytechnic Institute.

According to statistics, from 2.5 million students having home education at the institutions of I-IV levels of accreditation, 8000 are people with special needs (disabilities).