Palace of students of KhPI

The building was built in 1913 as the administrative building of the Diocesan Women's School, designed by the last Kharkov diocesan architect V.N. Pokrovsky . Initially, this building included an assembly hall and a refectory of the school.

In 1931, the administrative building of the Diocesan School, similarly to the rest of its buildings, was converted into the building of the KhPI dormitory and incorporated into its main campus, which was then called the "Giant".

During the Great Patriotic War, the building was severely destroyed and temporarily lost its functionality.

In 1963, at the initiative of the student activist of the KhPI, the former administrative building of the Diocesan School was rebuilt into the Palace of Students (architect Komirny V.K.). The idea was borrowed mainly from the Palace of Students of Dnepropetrovsk University , which was built at the time with the same purpose - to host a larger number of spectators during mass events of the university than was placed in the largest educational classrooms of universities and in traditional assembly halls of universities. ^[2]

On the basis of the Palace of Students contains 23 creative teams in which more than 900 students and graduate students of NTU "KhPI" participate.

Five of these groups received the title of “Folk Art Team of Ukraine”:

• Folk Art Collective Chamber Choir named after A. Petrosyan (leader - Felix Sokol)
• Amateur collective of trade unions of Ukraine violin ensemble "Impromptu" (leader - Natalia Chistyakova)
• Amateur collective of trade unions of Ukraine “Crescendo” chamber orchestra (leader - Natalya Chistyakova)
• Vocal show of the band “Suzir'ya” (leader - Elena Aparina)
• School of Modern Ballroom and Sports Dance "Triumph" (trainer-teacher - Irina Balagula, Denis Paukshtello) ^[3]

Other teams of the Palace:

• Center Art-International "Unity" (head - Galina Volchenko)
• Polyphony Accordion Accordion Ensemble (directed by Vitaliy Kirichenko)
• Pop group “Ele Funk” (leader - Dmitry Sinitsyn)
• Folk dance "Katyusha" (leader Ekaterina Smirnova)
• Vocal group "My Project" (leader Andrei Aparin, choreographer Yulia Tsareva)
• Instrumental folk band “Otakoї” (leader - Peter Smirnov)
• Unicorn Irish Dance Ensemble (directed by Alina Solonitskaya, Anastasia Mishchenko)
• Club of Acrobatic Rock and Roll “Senate” (leaders - Sergey Lyashenko and Natalia Proskurina)
• Helios Pop Dance Theater (director - Angelika Volga)
• Drama Theater-Studio "Cedar" (director - Vladimir Mikheev)
• Youth Theater of Humor “Passage” (director - Alexander Ivanov )
• KHPI-film studio (director - Irina Faustova)
• Circus studio "Benefis" (leader - Leonid Kalashnikov)
• Jazz band “SM” (leader - George Tooth)
• Oriental Dance Studio "Daliiya Dance" (director - Oksana Lutsenko)
• Ballroom Dance Ensemble "Nika" (leader - Tatyana Gorozhankina)
• Acting school (leaders - Natalia Kholodova, Inga Belykh)

Currently, the activities of most of the staff of the Palace of Students go far beyond the student life of the KhPI, they regularly take part in various competitions and festivals at the city, regional and international levels. 32 team leaders have numerous professional awards. ^[3]

Most of the events held at the Palace have a tradition of repeating for new students from year to year. The number of various cultural events announced here as annual has so far reached almost 200, and the total number of their spectators and participants is almost 90 thousand.

The most popular annual events organized directly by the Palace activists:

• initiation into students
• New Year's ball for students
• graduation party of specialists
• April Fools' Day humor festival
• festival of sacred music "Easter bells"
• solemnly mourning rally dedicated to Victory Day
• Masters parade and graduation party

The Palace’s asset also holds many popular events in conjunction with other bodies of student life at the KhPI, such as the administration, trade union committees of students and employees, the student self-government body Student Alliance, faculties and departments of the university:

• days of faculties and departments
• open days
• opening of the Spartakiad NTU "KhPI"
• festivals-contests "Start gives Polytech", "Star Planet Polytech", "Miss KhPI"
• holidays of foreign community of NTU "KhPI"
• games of the KVN League "Polytechnic"
• festival of humor "Cheerful Polytechnic"
• creative reports of leading groups and others ^[3]

KhPI Students Palace for many of its participants opened the way to professional art. Among them:

• Inin (Gurevich) Arkady Yakovlevich (b. 1938 ) - KhPI graduate, writer, playwright, publicist
• Fokin Vladimir Petrovich (b. 1945 ) - graduate of the KhPI, film director
• Harchenko Valery Nikolaevich - KhPI graduate, director, actor, screenwriter ^[4]
• Mamut Evgeny Shaevich - KhPI graduate, developer of technical and visual aids in cinema, winner of two Oscars ^[5]
• Borisova Irina Anatolyevna (b. 1952 ) - animator
• Bondarev Vitaly Evgenievich ^[6] (b. 1960 ) - graduate of the KhPI, actor
• Chernyakhovsky Garry Markovich (b. 1944 ) - KhPI graduate, director, actor, producer
• Pravdyuk Yuri Alekseevich ^[7] - the founder of "light painting" (aka "light music" or "color music")
• Gunin Boris G. ^[8] - Director of the Vladimir Academic Regional Drama Theater

Many of the leaders of the Palace's collectives received the title of Honored Artists, for example, A. Poland, V. Palkin, A. Litvinenko, Z. Prikhodko, G. Zakirova, M. Moldavsky, V. Zolotarev, A. Bulysov, A. Litvinov, T. Prevost, Z. Dovzhanskaya, I. Kryuchek and others ^[9] .

The world influence and fame was gained by the invention of the Palace participant Yu. A. Pravdyuk of a large new direction in "light painting". He was mentioned in connection with his contribution to this art in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia . ^[10] To implement the photographic painting, Pravdyuk launched the device he invented - the “Laterna,” which is still on display at the Museum of Modern Art ( New Jersey , USA ).

Even more famous people collaborated with the Palace for a short time. In Soviet times, even Marcel Marceau came here to conduct master classes with the then popular theater of shadows and pantomime "Silhouette".

The greatest number of Soviet and world pop stars became acquainted with the Palace thanks to the most popular of the annual festivals held here - "Humorine". It was introduced in 1977 on the model of Odessa " Humorina ", but, unlike Odessa, it was held not one day, but ten. Over the years, many stars of Soviet humor have visited this "Humor", such as, for example, bard-humorist Leonid Sergeyev and the editor-in-chief of the TV show " Jolly Fellows " Andrei Knyshev .

Among the well-known groups, the choir group and the Unity group, which took pride of place at the XII World Festival of Youth and Students in Moscow, should be distinguished first of all. ^[eleven]

• Site of the Palace of Students NTU "KhPI"
• Information about DS KhPI in the newspaper POLITEKHNIK
• Information about DS KhPI in the newspaper Vremya
• Information about DS KhPI in the newspaper "Evening Kharkov"
• Information about DS on the official website of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine (in Ukrainian)
• Channel DS KhPI on youtube