On August 28, the gallery of sculptural portraits of prominent scientists who worked and studied at Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute was replenished with a bas-relief of a prominent Ukrainian scientist in the field of mechanics, the first dean of the Mechanical Department (now the
Classes at the institute began September 1, 1898 [6, p. 4] in a room built for commercial school (st. Vorovsky, 24), which in the year was rented by Institute. By the beginning of the next school year chemical pavilion and mechanical workshops have already been built.
Zworykin Konstantin (1861-1928) - Professor, Dean of Mechanical Faculty (1898-1904), Rector of the Polytechnic Institute (1904-1905), Head of the research department of mechanical technology (1922-1927). In 1884 he graduated from the St. Petersburg Institute of Technology.
