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KHARKIV AVIATION INSTITUTE

Ukraine is one of few countries in the world where aviation and space engineering are developed and manufactured and where skilled specialists are trained in these areas. The National Aerospace University Kharkiv Aviation Institute is the leading one among the Ukrainian educational institutions which turn out such specialists.

Khai is a unique higher education institution where the airplanes developed by the Institute Design Bureau 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 the order of Lenin. In 1998 the N. Ye. Zhukovskiy State Aerospace University “Kharkiv Aviation Institute” was founded based on the KhAI and in 2000 the University got a status of the National higher educational institution and got the name of the National Aerospace University Kharkiv Aviation Institute.

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During the period of its existence, the University has trained about 60 the engineers. More than 80% of the specialists with higher education who work in the Ukrainian aerospace area are the graduates of KhAI.

From 1977 to 1984 the Designer General O.K. Antonov run the department of airplane structure at KhAI.

The distinctive special peculiarity of KhAI is its close relations 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.

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At present over 10000 thousand students and 200 post-graduate students are trained at the University; 700 teachers and 3 thousand employers work here. Among them, there are 150 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.

Khai is a member of the International Association of University; Global Association, Organization of Industry and Airport Technology; it is also in the International Catalogue, as well as to the Aerospace Agency of Ukraine.

KhAI is a co-executor of some programs which are carried out with universities and companies of the USA, Japan, Germany, France, Mexico, and Chine. The University takes part in the program of creation of the “Alfa” international space station.

In 1992 KhAI resumed the training of foreign students over 300 foreign citizens from 25 countries of Asia, Africa and America are trained annually at the University.

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, a research institute, and laboratories, the library with 1 million volume in a stock, a campus, a sporty complex, a swimming pool, clinic of first medical aid, dining halls, a bank, children garden, etc.