Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute has a rich and glorious history. Its fame was created by inspired, selfless work of outstanding scholars and teachers who have turned KPI into the unique educational and research institution and its graduates who have made outstanding contributions to the development of science and technology in the twentieth century – both national and international.
With the advent of the era of space flight, design engineers became interested in the idea of creating orbital space complexes and even entire human settlements in Earth orbit and on the Moon. Initially, they were planned to be formed by docking ships with each other.
On March 17, Yuriy Franzovych Zinkovskyi, a prominent Ukrainian scientist, educator, educational organizer, professor, doctor of technical sciences, academician of the National Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of Ukraine, and winner of the State Prize of Ukraine in Science and Technology, turned 9
Probably a lot of the graduates of Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute remember that from the 60s to 90s of the 20th century one of the basic textbooks on physics that they used while preparing for admission to the institute was the " Handbook on Physics for University Entrants" edited by Pr
You usually remember youth time with love. Especially those people who met us, students of the 60s of the last century, when we first entered our alma mater - Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute and its Department of Acoustics. From there, our scientific and student life started…
An outstanding Ukrainian foundry scientist who made a significant contribution to the development and improvement of foundry production and the science of casting metals and alloys, Konstantyn Ilyich Vashchenko (1900 - 1992) entered the history of science and technology as a metallurgist-innovato
Viktor Lvovich Kirpichov was born on September 26 (October 8), 1845, at the Bardino estate in Pskov Oblast (Russia) to Lieutenant Colonel Lev Matveyeich Kirpichov, a Mathematics teacher at the Mykolaiv Military Engineering School (St. Petersburg).
Eugeniy Mykolayovych Travnikov - teacher, scientist, inventor, designer, experimenter, writer and poet. From 1965 he combined teaching at Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute with design.
Senior polytechnics remember Anatoliy Pavlov (1919 - 2008) - an outstanding scientist in the field of geometric surface modelling, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Head of the Department of Descriptive Geometry, Engineering and Computer Graphics (1965–1989), Academician of the Academy of Sciences of
The name of Candidate of Technical Sciences, professor A.O. Lipatov is well known among the professional community. An outstanding specialist in the field of super high frequency devices and satellite telecommunications, Honorary Worker of Ukraine Higher School, exemplary student of the USSR Higher School, Honorary Radio Operator of the USSR, Inventor of the USSR, Laureate of the State Prize of Ukraine in the field of science and technology — it's all about him