Second World War

On the 7th of May at NTUU "KPI" was held a solemn meeting on the occasion of the 68th anniversary of the Great Victory.

The participants of the Great Patriotic War - Kyiv Polytechnic Institute veterans - were gathered in the hall of the Academic Council; there they were warmly welcomed by the first pro-rector of NTUU "KPI", academic NAS of Ukraine Yuriy Yakymenko, a chairman of the trade union of the university employees Vitaliy Molchanov, a veteran of the World War II and long-term employee of the university Mykola Trykhlib, the head of the NGO "KPI Veteran" Yuriy Nesterenko and a cadet of the Military Institute of Telecommunications and Information of NTUU "KPI", a senior soldier Julia Popravko.

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 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.

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.

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.

65 years ago, November 6, 1943, the Soviet troops during the Kiev offensive liberated capital of Ukraine from fascist invaders.

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?

Participant liberation of Kyiv, a former lecturer of physics in KPI,  retired Major, Associate Candidate of Sciences Mikhail Velichko mentions battles on Bukrin foothold, in which he was.

A retired colonel, Volodymyr Mykolayovych Zorin, a participant of liberation of Kiyv, who graduated from the heat-and-power engineering department , told our correspondent  V.Y. Melnyk about events, which he had to survive.