This educational establishment was founded in 1818 as the Institute for Noble Maidens. The walls of the Noble Maidens’ Institute saw I.P.Kotlyarevsky and T.G.Shevchenko. The outstanding personalities of Ukrainian, Czech, Russian history and culture used to work as teachers at the Institute. Among the graduates of this educational establishment were O.S.Pushkin’s and M.V.Gogol’s great granddaughter
s, famous Ukrainian democratic writer Lyubov Yanovska. Founded in the summer of 1930 as the Farm Building Engineers Institute, this educational institution was reformed into the Civil Engineering Institute in 1960s. During the period of the Ukrainian State’s independence formation the research and teaching staff rapidly reformed the one-field building engineering institute into the multi-field technical university (1993) meeting the region’s demand for experts in nearly 30 specialties.
