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Kyiv Polytechnic Institute takes up the territory of 160 hectares. To compare – it’s 2.5 times more than the territory of The Vatican.
The university’s campus includes a park and around 30 buildings.
The best architects of the time submitted proposals for the university building design. In the end, the choice fell on the brick style by Jeronim Kitner. The chemistry building was the first to be opened. Now, it is included in the list of Ukraine’s architectural monuments.
In 1903, the examination committee here was headed by Dmitri Mendeleev, a Russian chemist who formulated the periodic table. During World War I, the building housed a rocket workshop. It is also where the first airplane in the Russian Empire was built.
However, the highlight of the campus is its main and largest building.
Romanesque gothic architectural style is furthered by the towers on each side with marquee roofs. Inside, one will find stucco molding in the Romanesque renaissance style.
The Great Physics Auditorium of the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute is known to be the most opulent lecture hall in the Ukrainian capital.
A plaque on the wall has accurate geographical coordinates of the building. The sculptures of 8 famous physicists were originally created by Italian sculptor Emilio Sala – famous for his collaborations with Vladyslav Horodetskyi, most notably on the ‘House With Chimaeras’. More recently the sculptures were restored by Ukrainian Anatoliy Valiyev.
The university also has a museum of its own – with some ten thousand items on show.
The museum of the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, and its entire campus for that matter, allows visitors to get immersed in the history of Ukrainian science and education.
