Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute

Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute   (University)
Formation	1898
Ukrainian polytechnic university

The National Technical University of Ukraine "Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute" (NTUU KPI) is a major university in Kyiv, Ukraine.

Name

• 1898–1918 Kiev Polytechnic Institute of Emperor Alexander II
• 1918–1934 Kyiv Polytechnic Institute
• 1934–1948 Kyiv Industrial Institute
• 1948–1968 Order of Lenin Kyiv Polytechnic Institute
• 1968–1992 Order of Lenin Kyiv Polytechnic Institute in memory of the 50th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution
• 1992–1995 Kyiv Polytechnic Institute
• 1995–2016 National Technical University of Ukraine "Kyiv Polytechnic Institute"
• 2016— National Technical University of Ukraine "Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute"

History

The institute was founded on 31 August 1898 as the Kiev Polytechnic Institute of Emperor Alexander II, but its current building complex was not built until 1902. Until then, the institute was renting out its space at the building of Commercial School located on Vorovsky Street. At that time it had four departments: Mechanical, Chemical, Agricultural, and Civil Engineering. The first enrolment constituted 360 students. The leading Russian scientists Dmitri Mendeleev, Nikolai Zhukovsky and Kliment Arkadyevich Timiryazev gave substantial scientific and organizational assistance in the founding of the institute.

Viktor Kyrpychov was the first rector of the KPI. It was largely due to Kyrpychov's efforts that such professors like V.P. Yermakov, S.M. Reformatsky, M.I. Konovalov or Vladimir Zworykin became members of the first faculty.

Since its establishing the institute was involved in the 1899 All-Russian student strike, which resulted in arrest and exile of 32 students. In the beginning of 1899 in the institute was established underground organizational committee and had a close relation with the Kyiv council of united communities and organizations.

See also: Shuliavka Republic

In 1930, the Kyiv National University of Construction and Architecture (KNUCA) was established on the basis of factory and communal construction branch of the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute (KPI) and the Architectural faculty of the Kyiv Art Institute.

Notable alumni

A large number of prominent people worked and studied at the KPI: E.O.Paton, the inventor of electric welding; M. I. Konovalov, a well-known chemist; I. P. Bardin, Ukraine's greatest metallurgist; A. M. Lyulka, USSR's premier designer of jet engines; rocket scientist Sergey Korolyov; creator of Sikorsky Helicopters, the well-known inventor Igor Sikorsky, well-known scientist in the field of fuel combustion and protection of the atmosphere from industrial pollution Isaak Sigal; Boris Yakovlevich Bukreev, a prominent mathematician known for his works in complex functions, differential equations, and non-Euclidean geometry. President of the First Exam Board in chemistry faculty was Dmitri Mendeleev.

Also must be mentioned: Stephen Timoshenko, reputed to be the father of modern engineering mechanics; Vladimir Chelomei, Soviet mechanics scientist and rocket engineer; Aleksandr Mikulin, Soviet aircraft engine designer and chief designer in the Mikulin OKB, Oleg Tozoni, the head of the Department of Electrodynamics at the Cybernetics Institute of the Academy of Science.

Chairman of the National Bank of Ukraine Valeriia Hontareva is also an alumna.

 

Alumni on Wikispooks

Person	Born	Nationality	Summary	Description
Oleksandr Danylyuk	22 July 1975	Ukraine	Politician Deep state operative	Ukrainian member of the Institute for Statecraft
Diana Panchenko	21 May 1988	Ukraine	Journalist Television presenter	Ukrainian journalist. Condemned by a 2024 Reporters Without Borders hit piece.

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