History of the university

We bring to your attention the book of Mykhailo Zgurovsky "The Legacy of Academician Glushkov at the Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute".

A brilliant engineer, a world-famous aircraft designer, the legendary creator of the helicopter. Descendant of an ancient priestly family, son of a prominent psychiatrist, doctor of medicine, well-known in Europe scientist Ivan Sikorsky.

After the beginning of russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the information systems and elements of its critical digital infrastructure that are most important for the viability of the KPI were moved to the cloud.

124 years ago, on August 31, 1898, the solemn opening of the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute took place.
Entering Kyiv Polytechnic Institute was by no means easy: only 360 applicants out of more than 1,000 were enrolled. Entrants’ knowledge of specialized disciplines was carefully checked.

Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute is a world-renowned technical university and one of Ukraine's most respected institutions of higher education. Its rectors have been distinguished scholars whose lives and scientific achievements are, for the most part, well documented. However, during the interwar period of the twentieth century, the fate of some of them was tragic. The communist regime accused them of their scientific and administrative activities, although their only goal was to preserve Ukrainian science and prevent the loss of the university's academic staff.

Protection of the Motherland, independence and territorial integrity of Ukraine is a constitutional duty of every citizen of Ukraine. But you need to be able to defend your homeland.

This "Stone" "is dedicated to the memory of Georgii Karlovych Brief, a university lecturer who was shot dead with his wife at the end of September 1941 in Babyn Yar.

The old maps of Kyiv, not far from the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, near the khutir of Hrushky, show land marked as the Farm of the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute. What was this now forgotten farm? 

Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute has presented the publication “Kyiv Polytechnics in the Struggle for Freedom and Independence of Ukraine”.

The book is a story about an active participation of students and staff of the University in the events significant for Ukraine:

The outstanding scientist was born on February 8, almost two centuries ago. His flexible mind was always searching for the truth. His mind was phenomenal because it combined with stubborn workaholism and an unusual way of thinking.