History

His helicopters saved millions of lives, and other aircraft broke all possible speed records.

In memory of the First Congress of the People's Movement of Ukraine

Petro Mykhailovych Talanchuk is a graduate of Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor, and from 1987 to 1992 he was the rector of Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, the first Minister of Education of independent Ukraine.

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 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.

The newspaper "Kyiv Polytechnic" was founded in 1927. And since then, throughout its history, it has been the Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute chronicler, and therefore the country chronicler.

…Before dawn on February 24, 2022, most of us awoke to the sounds of explosions. A new reality awaited everyone outside their windows. Our concerns, desires and plans, which only yesterday seemed so important and urgent, immediately became insignificant.

Nine years ago, on February 18, the fiercest confrontations between security forces and Maidan participants started in the center of Kyiv, which they call the final stage of the Revolution of Dignity.

On occasion of the 75th anniversary of the first flight of the An-2 aircraft

124 years ago, on August 31, 1898, the solemn opening of the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute took place.
Entering Kyiv Polytechnic Institute was by no means easy: only 360 applicants out of more than 1,000 were enrolled. Entrants’ knowledge of specialized disciplines was carefully checked.