History of the university

The wall of the old section plant “Arsenal”, beaten by cannon and rifle shots, were for a long time the visiting card of Kiev, together with the monument to Bogdan Khmelnitsky, St. Andrew's Church and Kiev-Pechersk Lavra complex.

For many years, on the front page of the New Year issue of our newspaper next to the Rector's congratulation it is published the winter photo of the first building, made in a week or a month before the release.

Kyiv Football League (KFL) was established September 24, 1911, at the foundation meeting of representatives of sports clubs Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, the German gymnastic society, the Polish gymnastic society and other sports organizations.

In our time, the enrollment into the KPI was not easy, and training in it - much harder. Among the recognized almost by all of the most difficult education subjects the theory of machines and mechanisms – TMM is occupied the leading place.

In the mid-80s on the FCT it was functioned radiochemistry laboratory headed by prof. Yu.Ya.Fialkov with modern equipment and a cohort of young scientists, who have had experience with open sources of ionizing radiation "hot" radionuclides. In the laboratory, a theoretical study of non-aqueous and aqueous solutions, as well as practical developments were carried out, for example, methods of industrial wastewater of various contaminants including radioactivity.

Department of Instrumentation was established in February 1961.

In recent years, both in our and neighboring countries are hotly debated the rules of an enrollment students in higher education institutions. At the same time it is discussed an improvement of  the training quality.