Notable Alumni and Faculty
- Mikhail Gurevich, Soviet aircraft designer
- Leonid Krasin, Russian and Soviet Bolshevik politician and diplomat
- Iona Yakir, Red Army commander and military reformer
- Hnat Khotkevych, Ukrainian cultural figure
- Lev Landau, Soviet physicist, Nobel Prize winner (1962)
- Nikolay Beketov, Russian physical chemist
- Vladimir Steklov, Soviet/Russian mathematician and physicist
- Alexander Morozov, Soviet tank designer, long-time head of Morozov Design Bureau, one of the key persons responsible for T-34 tank and its successors
- Lev Belkind, Soviet power engineer and science historian
- Leon Theremin, Soviet inventor, creator of the theremin, the first electronic musical instrument
- Anton Valter, Soviet nuclear physicist, one of the founders of the Ukrainian Institute of Physics and Technology, the first nuclear physics research facility in Ukraine
- Petr Budnikov, Soviet chemist (chemistry of silicates)
- Nikolai Pylchykov, KhPI professor, practical physicist, inventor of radio remote control and photo-voltaic effect
- Konstantin Chelpan, chief designer of the T-34 tank engine.
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