I welcome you on behalf of numerous student and
'employees' body of one of the leading educational
institutions of Ukraine - National aerospace university
'Kharkov Aviation Institute'. I may say with a certainty
that you have not made any mistake in choosing our
University as an institution where you can get higher
education. Aviation and space science is the most
prospective direction school in modern industry. That is
why, it's so attractive for the young people who want to
acquire an interesting and prestigious occupation. The
KhAI is able to grant them such a possibility. The
teachers and scientists of the University will do their
international standard.
I hope for our collaboration to be fruitful and mutually beneficial and I expect it will make its contribution to the
development of scientific and technical progress not only in Ukraine but in other countries as well.
Rector
professor V. Kryvtsov
space engineering are developed and manufactured and where
skilled specialists are trained for these areas. The National
Aerospace University Kharkiv Aviation Institute is the leading one
among the Ukrainian educational institutions which turn out such
specialists.
The KhAI was founded in 1930. Its history is closely connected
with the development of aircraft engineering and science. The
University is famous for its creation of the first in Europe
high-speed airplane with a retractable landing gear and the
creation of the design of the turbojet engine developed by teacher
of the KhAI A. M. Liulka who afterwards became the academician
and designer of many structures of aircraft engines including the
engine of the aircraft Su-27.
under the supervision of professor I. G. Neman were produced serially at the aircraft plants and run on passenger
airlines.
In 1978 the KhAI was given the name of N. Ye. Zhukovskiy. In 1980 the Institute was awarded with the order of
Lenin. In 1998 the N. Ye. Zhukovskiy State Aerospace University “Kharkov Aviation Institute” was founded on the
basis of the KhAI and in 2000 the University got a status of the National higher educational institution and got a
name of the National Aerospace University Kharkiv Aviation Institute.
During the period of its existence the University has trained about 60 ths engineers. More than 80% of the
specialists with higher education who work in Ukrainian aerospace area are the graduates of the KhAI.
From 1977 to 1984 the Designer General O.K. Antonov run the department of airplane structure at the KhAI.
with the industry. At present the Designers General and heads of
the largest aerospace enterprises: Ya.E. Isenberg, P.V. Balabuyev,
V.A. Bogyslayev, I.V. Drenovskiy, S.M. Konyutov, F.M.
Muravchenko, A.K. Mialitsa are employed at the University.
At present about 9.5 ths students and 160 post-graduate
students are trained at the University; 650 teachers and 2.5 ths
employers work here. Among theme there are 120 Professors and
Candidates of Science. Among the teachers of the University there
are also: 1 USSR State Lenin Prize winner, 7 USSR State Prize
winners, 28 Ukraine State Prize winners, 11 USSR Council of
Ministers Prize winners.
and Airport Technology; it is also in the International Catalogue and belongs to the Education Promotion Bureau
UKRIANE, as well as to the Aerospace Agency of Ukraine.
The KhAI is a co-executor of some programs which are carried out with universities and companies of USA,
Japan, Germany, France, Mexico and Chine. The University takes part in the program of creation of “Alfa”
international space station.
300 foreign citizens from 25 countries of Asia, Africa and
America are trained annually at the University.
The KhAI covers a separate territory of the city in the
forest-part zone, its area amounts to about 25 hectares. The
University has 8 academic buildings, research institute and
laboratories, library will 1 ml volume in stock, campus, sporty
complex, swimming pool, preventurium clinic of first medical aid,
dining halls, bank, children garden, etc.
