24, October 2017 was the 150th anniversary of Biliashivskyi’s birth. Mykola Biliashovskyi (1867-1926) was an academician at National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, an archaeologist, an art expert, an ethnographer, a museum expert and the forst librarian of the KPI.
On October 31, 2017 professor Yuri Stepanovich Synekop turned 80. All his scientific, pedagogical, managerial achievements are inextricably linked with the Kiev Polytechnic Institute. He graduated from the KPI in 1964, defended his Ph.D. thesis in 1973.
On September 22, 2017, the Head of the Department of Heat Engineering and Energy Conservation IEE Valeriy Ivanovich Deshko celebrated his jubilee. The whole life of this outstanding person, a scientist and a talented teacher is connected with the Kiev Polytechnic Institute.
The head of the Department of Geotechnical Construction and Mining Technologies of Institute of Energy Saving and Energy Management Viktor Heorhiiovych Kravets turned 80 on October 9, 2017.
July 15, 2017 was 70 years old assistant professor of the department of electromechanical equipment of energy-intensive industries IEE, candidate of technical sciences Victor M. Slidenko.
On August 28, Nina Antonivna Yaremchuk, acting as the head of the Department of Information and Measuring Technique, candidate of technical sciences, professor, honored teacher of NTUU "KPI", turned 80 years old.
On 11 July, 2017, Peter Vasilievich Krush, Honored Teacher of the NTUU "KPI", Candidate of Economical Sciences, Professor, Honored Teacher of the NTUU "KPI", celebrated his 70th birthday.
June 19, 2017 marks the 70th anniversary of Professor, Doctor of Technical Sciences Valentin Georgievich Kolobrodov, head of Optical and Optoelectronic Devices Department of the Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute Instrument-Making Faculty.
Valentyn Porfyrovych Yatsenko was born May 21, 1937, in Ivanivka, Khabarovsk region in a military family. On graduating from Kyiv Medical Institute in 1960 he became a surgeon.