May 26, 2011 marks 115 years since the birth of Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Professor Yuriy Dmytrovych Sokolov - an outstanding scientist in the field of celestial mechanics, head of the Department of Mathematics in the KPI 1937-1941
Modern war - it's not just war of tanks, aircraft, manpower, this along with everything else, as well war of scientific laboratories.
Academic I.V. Kurchatov
Lev Izrailevich Horlytskyy is the earliest explorer of a new kind of weapon - self-propelled guns (SPG). He is the chief designer of SPG: SU-122, SU-85, SU-100, which were taken up in 1942-1944 and have proven to be very effective fighting machine.
The outstanding Ukrainian mathematician, talented teacher OlexanderStepanovich Smogorzhevsky (1896-1969) worked at the Kiev Polytechnic Institute starting from October 1930 and to the end of his life.
Names of Kyiv aircraft designers Volodymyr Grigoriev and Fyodor Tereshchenko are surrounded by an aura of mystery.
Not a few so called family “duets” left their mark in the development of science and technology. Monuments are erected in their memory; their portraits are printed on the pages of school textbooks; books are written about them as well as films are shot.
“Ars longa, vita brevis” Life is short, art is eternal. Hippocrates
On May 10, 2010 there was 120 years since the birth of Professor Ohiyevskiy Volodymyr Vasyliovych, the founder of the Radio Engineering Faculty NTUU “Kyiv polytechnic institute”.
In 1997 I participated the European Conference of microwave equipment in Jerusalem. In the framework of cultural program I was fortunate to visit the Garden of Gethsemane, there are old oil trees which are more than 2000 years. Being in this holy place you feel in especially how fast time flies and the preservation of historical monuments of past events and their teachers has the inestimable value for future generations.
Georgiy Stepanovich Pisarenko was born in December 11, 1910 in Poltava Region, Ukraine. In 1936 he graduated from Shipbuilding College of Gorky Industrial Institute (Russia) with the Diploma of the Specialist in "Ship Mechanical Equipment".
“Our air fleet will never be powerful, unless we develop aircraft industry. This industry will always drag out a miserable existence and using plagiarism of foreign constructions until we haven’t developed our own engineer staff. This truth is too evidently and there is no point in proving it. Everybody who wants to lay the solid foundation in the improvement of air fleet, who values the national wealth and doesn’t satisfied only by outer side, should adopt it…
A prominent Ukrainian scientist, one of the founders and the 1st dean of the Physico-mathematical Faculty of NTUU “KPI”, member of the Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences Viktor Grygorovych Bariahtar was born on the 9th of August 1930.
The first attempts to construct a plane belonging to the nineteenth century. Thus, in 1882 the Russian engineer Olexander Mozhajskij built an aeronautical machine that is not able to rise into the air because of the large mass of the steam-engine, which served as the engine.
