University Founder in Ukraine
Viktor Kyrpychov is the most widely known in Ukraine as the founder and first rector of two prominent technical universities in this country (then a part of the Russian Empire):
- Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute (a rector in 1885-1898)
- Kiev Polytechnic Institute (a rector in 1898-1902)
Founding these universities was a part of wide program of technical education in the Russian Empire set up by Dmitriy Mendeleev. Professor Kyrpychov was a prominent provider of this program serving as a member of both a Working Committee for elaborating the project of common plan for professional education in the Russian Empire (1884), and the Committee for higher education (1897).
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