Don't get lost in the clouds. 135 Years Since the Birth of Igor Sikorsky

On 29 May 1914 (all dates are old style), the second prototype of the Ilya Muromets aircraft, piloted by its chief designer Igor Sikorsky, who recently turned 25 on 25 May, took off for the first time from the Korpusnyi Aerodrom of St. Petersburg. It was much lighter than its predecessor and had more powerful engines. 

In memory of the pioneer of the national aircraft industry Oleksandr Kudashev

On July 5, a monument to one of its famous employees, whose name is forever inscribed in the history of the national aircraft industry, was unveiled on the campus of the National Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute”. It is about the extraordinary professor of Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute Oleksandr Sergiyovych Kudashev, one of the first domestic aircraft designers.

What the first polytechnic students read

The collection of rare and valuable editions of the Scientific and Technical Library contains a lithographed edition of 1907 "Kyiv Polytechnic Institute. Student Library-Reading Room. Catalog of Books" printed by the Kyiv printing house "Progress".

The power of the "Steel Cross"

"The Ukrainian Order of the Steel Cross is a copy of the Nazi Iron Cross," was the nonsense spread on social media at the end of last year by provocateurs and ignorant russian telegram channels, who, as they say, hear the bell ringing but don't know where it comes from.

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