SchChat - School | Kyiv National University of Construction and Architecture

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1898 Kyiv polytechnical institute was founded. 1926 The chair of construction science of KPI was founded. It was headed by Yevhen Oskarovych Paton. 17 April 1930 Kyiv construction institute was created basing on the factory and communal construction of the KPI department and on Kyiv art institute department. The institute was located at the address 10 Peremohy Avenue (then Shevchenko blvd.) The incentive of the institute founding belonged to the group of professors, scientists who thought that Kyiv had to have its own higher educational establishment that would graduate the professionals on civil engineering specialties. The first director of the institute was Yevhen Hryhorovych Yakovlev. There were accepted 824 students for the first year. They indeed were lucky to listen to the lections of such outstanding architects as Oleksander Verbytskyi, Volodymyr Zabolotnyi. 1935 The scientific and research center was created. 1939 The higher educational establishment obtained the title – Kyiv civil-engineering institute (KCEI). 1948 Kyiv institute of civil engineers was joined to KCEI. 1961 KCEI was headed by the famous scientist Yurii Oleksandrovych Vietrov. During 22 years he was a rector of the institute. It was the time when the new campus was created, new branches of scientific activity expanded, new departments were founded and the number of students rose. Today one of the studying classes is named after Yurii Vietrov 1963