About Mother …

Professor of mathematical analysis and probability theory FMF, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences Nina Opanasivna Virchenko has been working at KPI for more than 40 years. She is a member of the Presidium of the AS Higher School of Ukraine, member of the Scientific Society n.a.

Why are trees so clourful in autumn?

I think these lines of Alexander Pushkin are familiar to all. And all students of KPI can enjoy by trees that are dressed in the gold and purple robes at our university.

Elderberry. Beautiful & Useful

“Girls, what a bride I’ve just met”, – with such an exclamation ran into the room young co-worker. (We are working in the main building, windows look toward the central entrance that is why we got used to the numerous wedding photosessions).

Honeysuckle. In the shadow of the first building

There are a huge amount of different plants grow on the territory of our park. “When walking along the territory of KPI two times slower, it is possible to see four times more”, - noticed a colleague, observing unknown bush on the corner of the campus (from the side of the counting house).

Magonia – relative of barberries

 “Kyiv polytechnic” already told about beautiful decorative bush of barberries growing near rector’s wing. But here, close to the entrance to “Alma-mater” café its dimwitted cousin is situated – Magonia padybolysta (Mahonia Agguifolium Nutt.) or American barberries, or Oregon grape.

White willow: fragile and mysterious

We have become accustomed to numerous photo shoots on the background of the university’s first building. It was portrayed in many angles. And the invariable attribute of summer photos is the look through the spruce branches or fragile greens almost century-old willows.

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