Community library. All-Ukrainian Library Day 2025

This year, the KPI Library building celebrates its 45th anniversary. From the very beginning and to this day, it remains a community library – a place that inspires, supports, and unites.

On September 30, on All-Ukrainian Library Day, we invite colleagues, friends, and the entire KPI community to traditionally meet in our Library:

• 2:00 p.m. – round table discussion “Community Space” (1st floor lobby).
  A unique opportunity to hear firsthand the history of the building’s creation, learn how it came to be and who contributed to making it what we know today.
• 4:30 p.m. – opening of the exhibition “Brick by Brick – The Chronicle of KPI” (Hall 3.5).
  Brick by brick, KPI grew and changed: from 19th-century brick buildings to white brutalist structures of the 1980s. The university campus has preserved entire stages of architectural history within its walls. The exhibition will feature the building materials used to construct the university.

See you at the Library!

Round table discussion “Community Space”

This year, on All-Ukrainian Library Day, we are celebrating another important event—the 45th anniversary of our Library building.

The library has always been a space that brings people together—this is its history and its present.

We invite you to a round table discussion entitled “Community Space,” dedicated to the 45th anniversary of the KPI Library building. This is an opportunity to hear firsthand the story of its creation, learn how it came to be, and who contributed to making the Library what we know it to be today.

Round table speakers:

• Mykhailo Yukhimovich Ilchenko, Chairman of the Academic Council of Igor Sikorsky KPI, Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
• Vitalii Vyacheslavovich Tatarchuk, Head of the Research Department on the History of KPI at the Boris Paton State Polytechnic Museum at Igor Sikorsky KPI
• Eduard Opanasovich Nazarenko, Vice-Rector of KPI 1971-1992, laureate of the State Prize of Ukraine in the field of architecture
• Volodymyr Ivanovich Pasivenko, People’s Artist of Ukraine, laureate of the Taras Shevchenko National Prize of Ukraine, corresponding member of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine
• Serhiy Ivanovych Sydorenko, professor, corresponding member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Honored Worker of Science and Technology of Ukraine
• Oleksiy Mykolayovych Novikov, director of the Educational and Scientific Institute of Physics and Technology of Igor Sikorsky KPI, professor, corresponding member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
• Olena Volodymyrivna Lykhovodova, Program Coordinator at the Goethe-Institut Berlin, daughter of Volodymyr Ivanovych Lykhovodov, chief architect of KPI, author and project manager of the KPI architectural complex, winner of the State Prize of Ukraine in the field of architecture
• Yevgeniya Vladimirovna Kulik, Director of the Igor Sikorsky KPI Library, Elena Ivanovna Kobets, Head of the Department of Prospective Development of the Igor Sikorsky KPI Library

Event organizers: KPI Library, State Polytechnic Museum

Registration.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Webinar “Indexing conference proceedings in Scopus: requirements and standards of scientific quality”

The KPI Library and Elsevier invite you to join the webinar “Indexing conference proceedings in Scopus: requirements and standards of scientific quality,” dedicated to the procedures and criteria for including conference proceedings in the Scopus scientometric database.

Key aspects of the webinar:

• what selection criteria are applied to conference proceedings;
• what editorial and technical requirements conference organizers must meet;
• how to properly prepare metadata and ensure an adequate level of scientific quality;
• what common mistakes prevent indexing in Scopus and how to avoid them;
• what opportunities indexing opens up for authors, conferences, and scientific institutions.

The webinar will be useful for:

• organizers of scientific conferences;
• editors of conference abstracts and proceedings;
• researchers interested in disseminating their research in Scopus;
• representatives of academic institutions seeking to increase the visibility and impact of their scientific events.

The event will include a question and answer session, allowing participants to receive practical advice directly from an Elsevier expert.

Registration.

The webinar speaker is Kane Gu, an official representative of Elsevier. The event will be held in English (translation of the presentation and question and answer session will be provided).

Exhibition of street art United by Victory — How 25 Ukrainian artists see war and victory

With the support of Sigma Software, the KPI Library will host a unique exhibition, “United by Victories,” created by 25 street artists from all 25 regions of Ukraine, from Zakarpattia to Crimea. Each work conveys the artist’s individual and emotional vision of the war and our future victory.

“During the darkest months of the Russian invasion, we realized how much people need support and a sense of unity. We sought to inspire by creating a shared vision of the event we are all waiting for — our Victory. Artists from all corners of Ukraine joined the project to share their vision and emotions. Over the past two years, our exhibition has been seen by more than 30,000 people in the largest cities of Ukraine, as well as in Warsaw and Berlin. And now, future KPI engineers will be able to visit this exhibition — those who create innovations, build our future, and, I am sure, will make Ukraine even stronger,” says Oksana Nazarkevych, co-organizer of the project.

At the opening, participants will hear:

• the history of the project’s creation;
• stories about each work and all 25 regions of Ukraine represented in the exhibition;
• how art helps to support and inspire.

You will also find super cool merchandise for donations that bring us closer to our Victory.

The “United by Victories” project was born in Lviv at the end of 2022, when 25 artists painted 400 m² of wall space near the Victoria Gardens shopping center. The three-day festival attracted over 30,000 guests, featured a dozen master classes and concerts, and raised 250,000 UAH for charity. Since then, the exhibition has visited the largest cities in Ukraine, as well as Poland and Germany.

The organizer of the exhibition at KPI is the IT company Sigma Software, with which KPI has had a close and fruitful cooperation for many years. Recently, the KPI Library has already hosted one of the company’s projects aimed at promoting and developing engineering — the record-breaking motorcycle Inspirium. And now we are continuing this joint cultural initiative with the exhibition “United by Victories.” It will last three months and will be available to all visitors to the Library.

Don’t miss the opportunity to see art that inspires and unites.
Admission is free.

Knowledge Day at the KPI Library

The new academic year begins with dreams! We invite you to the Library on September 1 at 3:30 p.m. to give them wings together.

• Launch your dream

Join the tradition that unites KPI students! At the beginning of the new academic year, everyone can launch their dream at the Library: make a paper airplane, write down what you want most on it, and launch it into the sky along with hundreds of others. When paper airplanes with dreams fly up, we feel that together we can achieve more.

• Exhibition “United by Victories”

25 Ukrainian street artists show how they see our great common dream – the victory of Ukraine. Tens of thousands of people have already seen the exhibition, and now it will be at KPI for the first time thanks to our partners Sigma Software.

For more details, follow the link.

• Library Tour

First-year students and anyone else who is interested will be able to discover the Library — a place for learning, relaxation, meetings, and new ideas.

Come and share this start of the year with us. Dreams take flight when we launch them together!

The Basic Law and the Army: How Ukrainian Constitutional Projects Imagined the Army

Friends, June 28 is approaching – Constitution Day of Ukraine

We invite you to the lecture “The Basic Law and the Army: How Ukrainian Constitutional Projects Imagined the Army” by Armen Tonoyan, a third-year graduate student and lecturer at the Department of History of the Faculty of Sociology and Law of Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute.

Why did we choose such a topic?

This is a good opportunity to hear once again how important a powerful, combat-ready, motivated army is for building Ukrainian statehood, for protecting our independence. And to thank our military for their protection and all the opportunities that we have thanks to them.

What we will learn at the lecture:

• about the role of the army in Pylyp Orlyk’s “Constitution”;
• about what H. Andruzky, M. Drahomanov, M. Hrushevsky and M. Mikhnovsky proposed in their constitutional projects;
• about the view of the army in the constitutions of the era of the Ukrainian National Democratic Revolution;
• about the differences between Soviet constitutions and émigré projects;
• about how the Constitution of independent Ukraine views the army.

We are waiting for you! It will be interesting!

Presentation of Ruslan Nerovna’s poetry collection “Black Shadows. Me and my darkness”

Dear friends!

We are pleased to invite you to the presentation of Ruslan Nerovna’s poetry collection Black Shadows. Me and My Darkness”.

These poems were born where the earth breathes war, and the sky descends into the silence of the trenches every night. Each line contains the breath of the front line, where night is not just darkness, but a sincere conversation with oneself.

Ruslan Nerovnya, a defender of Ukraine, a graduate of the Faculty of Electronics of Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, speaks to us in the language of poetry: about fear and endurance, about loss and love, about the darkness through which light grows.

We are waiting for you!

World Vyshyvanka Day in KPI

Dear friends!

Every year on the third Thursday of May, we are united by embroidery. This tradition inspires, supports, reminds us of our history – and, in the end, it is just very, very beautiful!

We invite the community of Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute to celebrate World Vyshyvanka Day together on May 15!

This year’s program includes:

11:45 – taking pictures in front of the monument to Igor Sikorsky;

From 12:00 in the KPI Library:

• traditional planting of viburnum bushes;
• treating with dumplings, dumplings, pancakes in the library style (a charity event to support our defenders);
• performance of the creative team of the Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute;
• master classes;
• charity auction;
• flash mob.
• 20:00 – movie screening on the Square of Knowledge.

We are waiting for you!

Checking academic texts for signs of plagiarism: a blitz answer

We invite Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute researchers to ask everything they have long wanted to know about checking academic texts for signs of plagiarism.

Namely, to get answers within the following topics:

• why academic texts are checked;
• who checks them and how they are checked;
• what academic texts are checked at KPI;
• at what stage is the verification carried out;
• indicators of originality and borrowings;
• how many citations can be used;
• whether there is an acceptable percentage of plagiarism;
• who can make a decision on the presence of plagiarism;
• what happens after the check;
• whom to contact if you disagree with the expert opinion.

Speakers:

Yevheniia Kulyk, Director of the KPI Library

Olena Kosmina, Head of the Department of Information Support for Education and Research of the KPI Library

Registration.

All registered participants will receive a link to their e-mail.

Webinar “How to write a high-quality scientific article”

Webinar “How to write a scientific article with high quality” The KPI Library invites Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute researchers and everyone to take part in the webinar “How to write a scientific article with high quality”.

Key aspects:

• How to prepare a scientific article in the right structure.
• The main components of a scientific article: scientific substantiation, methods, analysis oresults.
• Using tools to improve the quality of scientific research.
• How to format metadata to improve the visibility and searchability of scientific articles.
• Useful recommendations on how to format an article in accordance with the requirements of international standards.

Speaker: Sophia Zherebchuk, Chief Librarian, Coordinator of Research Data Management at the KPI Library.

Registration.

All registered participants will receive a link to the meeting by e-mail. Participation in the webinar is free of charge. No certificate is provided.