Kyiv Polytechnic, which turns 115 this year, carefully saves its history. Many famous people who had glorified our country in many fields of science and technology, entered the pantheon of great polytechnics forever.
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.
Mechanical subdepartment (later – Department of Mechanical Engineering and now - Institute of Mechanical Engineering of NTUU " KPI") dates back to 1898 and together with Chemical Engineering Department is fthe same age as the Kyiv Politechnik.
The address of it is Prospect Beresteiskyi (former Peremohy), 37-e, the monument of architecture (early – the educational and manufacturing workshop of KPI).
With the rise photography in the mid-19th century as a form of fine art, humanity has an opportunity to save the important moments of its development. Looking at the old pictures we discover the cultural life of that time.
The first graduates of the KPI in 1903 along with diplomas were awarded with the Badge of graduate. There was an idea to find it. It seemed that it would be easy, but...
In December 1881 Swiss businessman Jacob Grether, who lived in Kyiv, bought from the heirs of Colonel Leonovich the right to lifetime use four tithes (about 4.4 ha) state land on the western outskirts of Kyiv - Shulyavka.
In the context of the integration of Ukrainian higher education in the international educational space is an interesting reference to the history of our university, which was established in 1898 as an institution of higher education of a new type based on the experience of leading polytechnics Eu