At the plenary meeting of the III session of the Kyiv City Council of the IX convocation on September 19, 2024, the deputies decided by a majority vote to rename the street where the building No. 28 of Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute stands in honor of the outstanding Ukrainian scientist and politician M.A. Pavlovsky, whose entire professional career and scientific achievements are associated with Kyiv Polytechnic.
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They say that to become an iconic figure and leave a mark on life and history, you need to be born in the right place at the right time. But there are people - bright, charismatic - who, wherever and whenever they are born, shape the space around them, unite and guide others. Leaders. Those who can be seen from afar. Contemporaries perceive them ambiguously. But their names and grateful memories of their students and followers remain in history for a long time.
Kyiv Polytechnic attracts extraordinary people like a magnet - personalities who can be called “the first, for the first time.” Undoubtedly, Mykhailo Pavlovsky (13.03.1942 - 26.02.2004) was such a person - Doctor of Technical (1977) and Economic (1997) Sciences, an expert in the field of mechanics of gyroscopes and navigation devices, research of nonlinear spatial oscillations of complex structures, founder of the Ukrainian school of gyroscopists.
A trailblazer
His path to science was rapid and powerful. He was born in Ruzhychna village, Khmelnytsky region, graduated from Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute with honors in 1963, was a graduate student of the Gyroscopic Devices and Instruments Department in 1963-66, an associate professor of the same department since 1968, headed the Department of Theoretical Mechanics in 1977-2004, and created and headed the Rhythm Design Bureau, which grew into the Interdisciplinary Research Institute of Mechanics Problems in 1985. He became the first doctor of science in Ukraine in the field of gyroscopes and navigation systems. His textbook on the theory of gyroscopes was the first industry textbook in the world.
Under his leadership, Pavlovsky developed unique equipment for ground testing of the Energia-Buran rocket and space complex, and after the Chornobyl accident, remotely controlled robotic systems for handling radioactive materials. In 1993, he was one of the founders and first dean of the Faculty of Aviation and Space Systems. This was the beginning of the restoration of aviation and space education in Kyiv Polytechnic. He also initiated the construction of building #28 (at the then Botkin Street, 1) as a scientific and technical complex for the development and research of aviation and space rocketry.
M.A. Pavlovsky was also an avid athlete, and to this day the university hosts a volleyball tournament in his memory.
Scientist and politician
M.A. Pavlovsky is a laureate of the State Prize of the Ukrainian SSR (1980), the State Prize of the USSR (1986), the State Prize of Ukraine (1992), Honored Worker of Science and Technology of Ukraine, awarded the Order of the Badge of Honor (1980) and the Diploma of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. He is a member of the Academy of Technological Sciences of Ukraine, a full member of the Ukrainian Academy of Economic Cybernetics since 1996, and an academician-secretary of the Aerospace Academy of Ukraine in 2002. He is the author of more than 450 publications, including 24 books (monographs, textbooks, manuals). He has prepared 12 doctors and 50 candidates of science. He is the author of 80 inventions.
He is the developer of the economic theory of transition and its Ukrainian context. Mykhailo Pavlovsky's doctoral dissertation in economic theory was the first in the post-Soviet space to focus on the strategy of the transition economy.
In the history of Ukraine, M.A. Pavlovsky left a mark as a passionate fighter for justice, a prominent political and public figure. In 1994-2004, he was a Member of Parliament of Ukraine of the II, III, and IV convocations, Chairman of the Standing Committee on Nuclear Policy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, Deputy Chairman of the Batkivshchyna Party (2001). In 1992, he was the Minister of Industry of Ukraine. He also created a special commission under the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on legislative support and support of high technologies in Ukraine. He has written 6 books and more than 50 articles on transition strategy. The latest was the collection of journalistic works “I live by you, Ukraine”, published in 2003. It was he who first formulated and proved the liberalization theory for geoeconomics, introduced the concept of “economic system sustainability” into scientific circulation, derived the laws of market development and degradation, formulated the conditions and obtained an analytical formula for economic growth and welfare growth, etc.
Honor
Colleagues, students, fellow countrymen and associates remember and honor the name of the scientist and politician M.A. Pavlovsky. In 2007, in his native village, which has now become one of the neighborhoods of Khmelnytskyi, the former Yarmolynetska Street was renamed in honor of Mykhailo Pavlovskyi. This is where he grew up, where he went on to become a great scientist and a great politician, and where he often visited from Kyiv, helping his fellow countrymen in word and deed. The school he graduated from is also named after Pavlovsky. His museum was created here, and in 2009 his bust was installed.
In March 2007, a memorial plaque dedicated to him was installed on the facade of building 28 of the Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute (pictured). This building also has an auditorium named after him. Another classroom named after Pavlovsky was opened at the Department of Theoretical Mechanics of the Ivano-Frankivsk National Technical University of Oil and Gas.
The scientific readings dedicated to the 80th anniversary of Professor Pavlovsky's birth were the first to be held at the Borys Paton State Polytechnic Museum after the start of the full-scale war unleashed by Russia against Ukraine. At that time, colleagues and students of the scientist initiated an appeal to the Kyiv City Council and proposed to name one of the capital's streets in his honor. Kyiv residents supported the initiative and cast their votes in favor of the renaming in the Kyiv Digital app. So this fall, Professor Pavlovsky Street appeared on the map of Kyiv, connecting Borshchahivska and Polytechnic streets and testifying to the memory of our contemporary, who was established and established at Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute.