Two fates. Search History Archives
Among the memorable and significant dates of our people is one, that cannot revoke the decree, or delete from memory, you cannot forget to jam current existence. This is 9 May , Victory Day.
The main symbol of Great Victory
The mention of the Great Patriotic War for every person causes his/her own associations. For someone it is destroyed cities and burned villages, for others − a constant hunger and deprivation or − the loss of loved ones. But there are associations that are common to all, regardless of age.
Horlytskyy Lev Izrailevich. Creator of victory’s weapons
Modern war - it's not just war of tanks, aircraft, manpower, this along with everything else, as well war of scientific laboratories.
Academic I.V. Kurchatov
Lev Izrailevich Horlytskyy is the earliest explorer of a new kind of weapon - self-propelled guns (SPG). He is the chief designer of SPG: SU-122, SU-85, SU-100, which were taken up in 1942-1944 and have proven to be very effective fighting machine.
Terrible fighting machine with a gentle maiden name
One of the most famous symbols of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 is famous "Katyusha" – the fighting vehicle of rocket artillery.
Monument of military glory in the park KPI
Monument is a stele made of monolithic tinted concrete shaped like an improperly oblong pentagon. On the front side of the stele there is a high relief with two sculptures at full height.
Feat unquenchable. To the 65th anniversary of Ukraine's liberation from Nazi invaders
October 28, 1944 the liberation of Ukraine from Nazi invaders was ended. It happened in the Carpathians, where the last Wehrmacht unit left our land under the onslaught of the troops of the 4th Ukrainian Front. The battle for the liberation of Ukraine lasted from December 1942.
1941-1945: Veterans faculty teachers, staff, alumni and students of KPI
From the first days of the war, many teachers and staff, alumni and students of the institute voluntarily and through mobilization joined the Red Army. M.F. Shpilko (Director of the Institute in 1937-1941) and A.S. Melnikov (Deputy Director in 1933-1941) who shortly before the outbreak of war led the Polytechnic Institute in Lvov participated in the fighting.
1941-1943 KPI in evacuation - the training of engineers and research for the national economy and national defense
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.
1943-1951: Re-evacuation and recovery of the Institute
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.
On the defense of Odesa and Sevastopil. Veteran’s Memories
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.