Tashkent Institute was located on the base of Central Asian Industrial Institute (SAII) and began to exist as an independent institution. In its structure 4 faculty and 12 departments functioned, where 31 students of the second up to the fifth course studied.
The liberation of Kiev in November 1943 allowed to resume the work of the Institute. The assistant professor V.I. Gorodisky was appointed to head the restoration. The registration for faculty, staff, students returning to college was started. Up to 25 November, it was registered 8 professors, 9 associate professors, 16 teachers, 30 support staff employees, 20 students.
In 1940, after graduation from school, on the ticket of the Komsomol I was sent to serve in the Black Sea Fleet. Service in the training detachment of the Odesa naval base.
In the June days of 1941 Kyiv Industrial Institute completed the 43rd academic year. There are 3,000 students in the Institute, more than 300 faculty members, the total number of the institute's staff was 5,000 [1, p. 2].
World War II veteran, a member of the fighting, a true patriot, a man who honestly fulfilled his duty and came to Victory. He survived, so he always acts honorably, as befits the defenders of the motherland.
65 years ago, November 6, 1943, the Soviet troops during the Kiev offensive liberated capital of Ukraine from fascist invaders.
During the 1st World War KPI main building used for defense purposes was placed in a room of food and dressing station evacuation hospital. Since August 1914 all of its middle part, except the library premises, occupied hospital.
About Ukrainian poetess Olena Teliga (Shovhenova), we know very little. For a long time her name was buried with the body in a mass grave, hidden under Soviet ideological restrictions and controls, unfair erased from people's memory.
The horror of war and pleasure of a victory still live in memory of veterans. In NTUU "KPI" those who approach memorable day still work. We askt at direct participants of war, they felt then, in far and joyful on May 9, 1945? What feelings meet than and feel now?
Meeting Veterans Day, I would like to emphasize the great significance work contribution of each KPI veterans to the establishment of the university. Without the dedication work of these people postwar reconstruction of KPI and further development would be impossible.
