Eugen Volodymyrovych Oppokov, the first President of Ukraine Mikhail Sergyovych Hrushevsky’s second cousin, was born on January 21, 1869 in Rude village, Skvirsky district, Kyiv region, in parish church priest Vladimir Yoanykyovych Oppokov’s family (Mikhail Sergyovych Grushevsky’s mother’s cousin
Dmytro Mykolaiovych Lorentso was one of the most outstanding representatives of the engineering elite of the XX century, who determined the face and fate of the cargo rail carriage engineering in the USSR. He had foreseen the perspectives of the development of his field for decades.
The second year the chair of mathematical analysis and theory of probability FMF and State Polytechnic Museum at NTUU "KPI" conduct joint seminars to devoted distinguished mathematicians who worked in the KPI. Gone seminars to devoted Zmorovych, OS Smohorzhevsky, YD Sokolov.
Michael Antonovich Pavlovsky went down in history of Kiev Polythecnic as the founder of the Ukrainian gyroscope school, an outstanding scientist in the field of mechanics, the founder and first dean of the Faculty of aviation and space systems.
Konstantin G. Samofalov - a corresponding member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, doctor of technical sciences, professor, laureate of State Prize of the USSR and the Ukrainian SSR.
From the beginning of human living on Earth there is a need to transfer loads and people by land, water and later air. Nowadays we have a lot of vehicles. They are cars, diesel locomotives, electric locomotives, ships, helicopters, planes, space rockets and many others.
Fialkov Y. was born 1 July 1931 in the family of the known scientist-chemist, corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences Y. A.
May 26, 2011 marks 115 years since the birth of Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Professor Yuriy Dmytrovych Sokolov - an outstanding scientist in the field of celestial mechanics, head of the Department of Mathematics in the KPI 1937-1941
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.
The outstanding Ukrainian mathematician, talented teacher OlexanderStepanovich Smogorzhevsky (1896-1969) worked at the Kiev Polytechnic Institute starting from October 1930 and to the end of his life.
