October marks the second anniversary of the foundation of the Kyiv Polytechnic Charitable Foundation for Support of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Our newspaper and other university media resources have already informed readers about its activities.
War always means pain, tears and losses. What is it like to live during a war? In different ways. On the one hand, life goes on, we go about our daily routine, work, study, take care of our loved ones. On the other hand, we change every day, every hour, every explosion.
“Dedicated to professionals and their grandchildren who will be able to become professionals”. This was the slogan of a roundtable discussion held at the Borys Paton State Polytechnic Museum as part of World Space Week on October 10, 2024.
Throughout most of October, students who are not indifferent to sports competed in competitions in six sports disciplines as part of the KPI Spartakiad. This was the second university sports day after a long break due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the beginning of a full-scale war.
Hanna Shymanska, a student of FIOT, received a scholarship in the academic year 2022/23.
On 29 May 1914 (all dates are old style), the second prototype of the Ilya Muromets aircraft, piloted by its chief designer Igor Sikorsky, who recently turned 25 on 25 May, took off for the first time from the Korpusnyi Aerodrom of St. Petersburg. It was much lighter than its predecessor and had more powerful engines.
On 18 October, Professor Yuri Mikhailovich Poplavko turned 90! He was born in Saratov to a civil servant's family, but lost his father early in life, who died in 1939. So in the same year, Yurii and his mother were forced to move to relatives in Leningrad.
Valentyn Anatoliyovych Svidersky was born on October 10, 1949. His childhood and youth passed in the village of Rokytne, Rivne region, where his grandfather and father worked at the local glass factory. So,from childhood he knew about the work of glass workers.
One of the main issues on the agenda of the meeting of the Academic Council of Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, which took place on October 7, was the consideration of the results of this year's admission campaign. The first vice-rector of the university Mykhailo Bezuhlyi made a report on its features and results. We publish the main points of his speech.
On September 19-20, the international conference “Stimulating Economic Recovery: Scaling the Experience of Digital Education in Higher Education Institutions” was held at the H.I. Denysenko Scientific and Technical Library of Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute.
