National Technical University "Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute"

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National Technical University "Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute"
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founding 1885
Sponsorship state
place Kharkiv , Ukraine
Rector Yevhen Sokol
Students 22,000 (2020)
Employee 4500
including professors 194
Website http://www.kpi.kharkov.ua/

The National Technical University "Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute" ( Ukrainian Національний технічний університет "Харківський політехнічний інститут" , Russian Харьковский политехнический институт ) is a technical university in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv . The Technical University of Kharkiv is the largest and oldest technical university in eastern Ukraine . It was founded in 1885 and today has 22,000 students enrolled (as of 2020). The first rector was the Russian engineer Viktor Lwowitsch Kirpitschow .

Building for electrical engineering (built 1929/1930)

Teaching and research focus

  • mechanics
  • Materials science
  • Reliability theory
  • Chemical engineering
  • Cryogenics
  • Nuclear physics
  • Electrical engineering
  • Drive technology, especially diesel engines

Nobel Prize Winner

Lew Landau , head of the University's Institute for Theoretical Physics since 1932, received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1962 for his work on the theory of condensed matter .

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