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.

Peter Rodionovich Rodin was born on June 17, 1922 in Kriuky village, Vladimir region, in a large forester’s family. His father was the only literate person in the village, owned a library, and his mother looked after the farm and took care of 8 children. In 1938, left the school with honors, P.R. Rodin entered the Moscow Aviation Institute of Technology (MAIT) for Faculty of Motorbuilding. He combined studying with his work at the plant. In 1945, Peter Rodionovich graduated with honors and enrolled in MAIT postgraduate course. In 1949, a young scientist defended his candidate's thesis and worked at the Odessa Polytechnic Institute until 1963. Firstly, he worked as a senior lecturer of Metal-cutting machines and tools department, then as an associate professor, head of the department, the dean of the Mechanical Department, and professor. Studies , conducted at that time, formed the basis of his doctoral thesis, which he defended in 1961.