Hilchevskyi Volodymyr Vasylovych
Volodymyr Khilchevskyi (January 17, 1925, Bakhmach - June 11, 2019, Kyiv) was an outstanding Ukrainian Soviet scientist in the field of mechanical engineering technology, Honored Worker of Education of Ukraine, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor of Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute.
Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute.
Volodymyr Khilchevskyi was born on January 17, 1925, in the town of Bakhmach (Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine). In 1941, he graduated from the 9th grade in Konotop. The war interrupted his further studies. Volodymyr Vasylovych got a job at a locomotive repair company, from where he volunteered for the Red Army. He was immediately assigned to the infantry that was crossing the Dnipro River at the Liutizh bridgehead north of Kyiv. Near the village of Yasnohorodka, he took part in his first battle and received his first wound and concussion. He was seriously wounded for the second time in February 1945 near the city of Breslau, Germany. In January 1946, he was demobilized due to a serious injury and returned to Bakhmach.
Upon his return, Volodymyr Hilchevskyi graduated from the 10th grade and entered the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, Faculty of Mechanics (specialty “Cars and Tractors”), where he graduated with honors in 1951. He was invited to the graduate school by the future academician Heorhii Pysarenko. That is how Volodymyr Vasylovych connected his life with Kyiv Polytechnic.
For two years, he was the head of the Department of Materials Resistance (1960-1962). In 1973, he received the title of Doctor of Technical Sciences and became the head of the Preparatory Department, which he headed for more than thirty years. He also headed the Department of Materials Science and Technology of Structural Materials for eighteen years (1973-1991). For more than fifteen years, he was the Chairman of the Methodological Commissions on the Resistance of Materials and Technology of Metals at the Ministry of Higher Education of the Ukrainian SSR, was among the organizers of the branches of Kyiv Polytechnic in Chernihiv and Zhytomyr, participated in the work of many qualification councils, and lectured abroad. Honored Worker of Public Education (1991), Professor of the Department of Laser Engineering and Physical and Technical Technologies (2003). He has trained six candidates and one doctor of science. He was twice awarded the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute Prize, and was awarded diplomas and certificates of honor from the Ministry of Higher Education of the USSR and the Ukrainian SSR, and the VDNKh of the Ukrainian SSR. He received eighteen state awards, honorary awards and the titles of “Honored Worker of Public Education of the Ukrainian SSR”, “Honored Professor of NTUU ‘KPI’, and several prizes. He is the author of more than 300 scientific works, including five monographs, two textbooks, and popular science books; he compiled the Russian-Ukrainian technical dictionary of mechanical engineering and general engineering.
Volodymyr Khilchevsky is an expert in the field of energy dissipation under complex vibrations of rod systems and shells. He is responsible for developing a new progressive method of plasma dimensional shaping and strengthening of cutting edges of tillage and road machines.
In addition to science, Volodymyr Khilchevskyi was fond of painting, and many people know his copy of the painting “Cossacks Write a Letter to the Turkish Sultan,” which was published in the Kyiv Polytechnic newspaper #39 (2006).
Generations of Kyiv Polytechnic students studied with him, worked with him, and respected him. Until the last days of his life, Volodymyr Vasylovych loved to visit his native Kyiv Polytechnic, to communicate with colleagues and younger friends.
He died on June 11, 2019, at the age of 95. He was buried at the Berkovets Cemetery. The life and scientific heritage of Volodymyr Hilchevskyi is a part of the university's history, which is important to know, study and multiply.