A prominent Ukrainian scientist, one of the founders and the 1st dean of the Physico-mathematical Faculty of NTUU “KPI”, member of the Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences Viktor Grygorovych Bariahtar was born on the 9th of August 1930.
General Director of WIPO Francis Gurry - Doctor of KPI. General Director of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), Dr. Francis Gurry June 29 - July 1, 2010 visited Ukraine.
Y.M. Kuznetsov was born June 24, 1940 in the city Kherson in the family of a serviceman. After graduating with a silver medal Kyiv secondary railway school, he entered in 1957 at the Mechanical Engineering Department of the Odessa Polytechnic Institute.
June 4, 1775, by order of Empress Catherine II Russian troops occupied Zaporizhian Sich. On the second day, on the orders of a tsarist general Tekeli an ammunition, Cossack Regalia, wealth and archive of Zaporozhye military office were took away.
The first attempts to construct a plane belonging to the nineteenth century. Thus, in 1882 the Russian engineer Olexander Mozhajskij built an aeronautical machine that is not able to rise into the air because of the large mass of the steam-engine, which served as the engine.
Today much is said about the colorful life of Viktor Ivanovych Trefilov (1930 - 2001) - Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, winner of Lenin and State Prizes of the USSR, PhD, Honorary Doctor of KPI, Director of the Institute of Materials in 1973 -2001 years.
The second semester crossed its equator, and soon the students of our and other faculties and institutes will finish the regular academic year. Among them there are those who, regardless of specialty match one common characteristic that unites them - they are graduates.
For more than 110 years of history many scientists worked in "KPI" whose descendants continued the way of their parents, creating the dynasties of scientific and technical intelligentsia of Ukraine in whole and our university in particular.
Chief designer of aircraft engines that have raised tens of thousands of airplanes into the sky, the student of KPI in 1912-1914 years, Oleksandr Oleksandrovych Milulin was one of the pioneers and founders of aviation in the USSR.
One of the most famous symbols of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 is famous "Katyusha" – the fighting vehicle of rocket artillery.
