Sometimes you can hear from the "experts" that Ikebana is a composition of dried flowers. However, it is not so! The word "Ikebana" consists of two hieroglyphs, their translation from Japanese means «live flowers" that is Ikebana - a composition of fresh flowers in a vase.
Director of the Center for Culture and Arts: Halushko Mykhailo
Address: 37, Prosp. Beresteiskiy, Kyiv-56, 03056
Phone: 204 83 26
Living stories about poet Maksym Rylsky—Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (1943), Chairman of the Writers’ Union of Ukraine (1943–1946), director of the Institute of Art Studies, Folklore, and Ethnography (1944–1964)—were heard by students, faculty, and staff of KPI, as well as everyone who visited the Scientific and Technical Library on March 17 for a meeting with his grandson—also named Maksym Rylsky, a writer, public figure, and Honored Journalist of Ukraine.
Kyiv Polytechnic is not only the cradle of engineering education, from which a host of scientific and educational institutions and manufacturing enterprises have emerged. It can also be called a nurturing mother who has embraced new departments, enriching the range of technical training.
On December 25, the mysteries and magic of the Christmas and New Year holidays begin. And they are ushered in by the Christian world’s second-largest holiday after Easter—Christmas. Traditionally, it is celebrated not only by believers of various denominations but also by those who are indifferent to religion.
Our newspaper (see “Kyiv Polytechnic” No. 1-2, 2024) has already reported on the mosaic panel “Science,” which adorns the facade of Building 18 and is included in the List of Identified Cultural Heritage Objects of Kyiv. However, its creator, monumentalist artist Fedir Tetyanych (1942–2007), is known mainly to specialists. But the first performer of independent Ukraine, whose ideas were ahead of their time and remain relevant to this day, does not deserve to be forgotten.
Japan came to life at Kyiv Polytechnic University!
Building integrity in the higher education system is one of the priorities of Ukraine's current education policy.
Life axiom: encounters with famous creative personalities are particularly memorable in childhood. An almost two-hour lesson-dialogue, held on June 7 by the presenter of the TV channel “Kyiv24,” lecturer at the Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts (KNUCA), and journalist Anastasia Krasnytska for students of the media school in Vasylkiv (Kyiv region) and pupils of the information and creative agency “Yun-press” (Kyiv Palace of Children and Youth), was dedicated to the celebration of Journalist Day. Ms. Krasnytska has 15 years of professional experience in television (over 4,000 hours of live TV broadcasts).
A photo exhibition dedicated to the educational series “Ukrainian Heroes and Heroines: From the Past to the Present” has opened at the Boris Paton State Polytechnic Museum of Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute.
