June 30 this year General Designer of rocket and space technology of the USSR, Hero of Socialist Labor, laureate of Lenin and State Prizes of the USSR, Academy of Sciences of the USSR Volodymyr Mykolayevych Chelomei would have turned 95 years old.
Bencion Moyseyovych Vul is a prominent Soviet physicist, Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1939), Hero of Socialist Labor (1969). He graduated from Kyiv Polytechnic Institute in 1928.
Alexander Winter was born on the 10th of October, 1878 in Grodno province, in the village of Starosiltsi - Bialystok district. His father was a railway engineer.
Vladimir Alexandrovich Plotnikov (1873-1947) was an outstanding scientist electrochemist, the academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR, the corresponding member of the AS USSR (02/23/1920).
Artemyev Nikolai Andreyevich (1874-1948) - the first head of the Department of Electrical Engineering of the Kiev Polytechnic Institute. He got his electrical technical education in Technical High school (Berlin).
Nikolai Kilchevsky - known scientist-engineer and an outstanding teacher takes the rightful place in the galaxy of famous names of the Kiev Polytechnic Institute.
In early 2008, Ukraine almost did not notice the 125-year anniversary of one of its most famous aircraft designers of the first half of the twentieth century, Dmitry Pavlovich Grigorovich, who was born, educated and formed as the creator of aviation in Kiev. His life was full of ups and downs.
His life was fruitful, interesting and at the same time extremely stressful. He was born in Dnipridzerzhinsk in a large working class family. Childhood and adolescence occurred in the turbulent war and postwar years.
Vasily Petrovich Izhevsk (04 [16] .06.1863, Ryazan - 23.10.1926, Kyiv) - Professor of Metallurgy Department, organizer of the steel industry specialty and Metallurgy Department of Kyiv Polytechnic Institute (1903). In Kiev Polytechnic Institute, he worked from 1889 to 1926.
Grigory Ivanovich Denisenko - an outstanding scientist, professor, doctor of technical sciences, corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences. The scope his personality, inherent to him natural features and unique destiny.
