Underground shelters made of soil concrete: reliable, inexpensive, quick to build
The winners of the innovative projects competition held as part of the Sikorsky Challenge 2025 festival, which recently took place at KPI, have been announced. They will receive funding to implement their ideas. This is the fourth festival held during the war, so its priorities included a defense forum and projects aimed at protecting the civilian population and critical infrastructure. The authors describe one of the developments that addresses an urgent need: the construction of shelters.
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KPI student Taras Karpyuk was awarded the title of Hero of Ukraine with the Order of the Golden Star (posthumously)
During the ceremony of awarding state awards to Ukrainian soldiers, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky presented the highest state award of Ukraine, the Golden Star, to Taras Karpyuk, a graduate of the Faculty of Sociology and Law (FSP) of Igor Sikorsky KPI, to his brother Yuriy, a KPI student, graduate of the Department of APEPS TEF (currently Institute of IATE), active military volunteer, and to his father Yuriy Nesterenko, head of the Civil Protection Department at KPI.
In memory of Yaroslav Pavlovich Nahirny
We have received information about the death of Yaroslav Pavlovich Nahirny (May 13, 1990 – September 16, 2024) in the war...
Yaroslav graduated from the Faculty of Welding in 2015 (the department is currently part of the E.O. Paton Educational and Scientific Institute of Materials Science and Welding).