National Aerospace University «Kharkiv Aviation Institute»
National Aerospace University «Kharkiv Aviation Institute» is the leading educational institution in Ukraine in the field of aerospace and aviation industry. Our university provides high-quality education and research in aeronautics, astronomy, space technology and many other areas related to the exploration of space and celestial bodies.
National Aerospace University «Kharkiv Aviation Institute» was founded in 1930 and initially had two faculties – aircraft engineering and engine engineering. At the time of its founding, KhAI had only 12 teachers and 69 students. The development of the institute proceeded at a very fast pace. Already in 1932, the first passenger aircraft in Europe with the KhAI-1 chassis, developed by teachers and graduate students of KhAI, took off. Airplanes and gliders created within the walls of the institute set world records.
Over the years of its existence, the university has trained more than 53 thousand engineers. Among specialists with higher education working in the aerospace industry of Ukraine, 80% are KhAI graduates. The university is rightfully proud of the achievements of its scientists in the field of supersonic aerodynamics, strength of aircraft structures, design of aircraft and rocket engines, aircraft control systems and many others. The inventions of university scientists have been patented in more than 20 countries around the world. KhAI is a regular participant in international exhibitions.
A distinctive feature of KhAI is its close ties with production. General designers and heads of the largest aerospace enterprises taught at the university: Ya.E. Eisenberg, P.V. Balabuev, V.A. Boguslaev, I.V. Dranovsky, S.M. Konyukhov, F.M. Muravchenko, A.K. Melitopol.
Now the university occupies a separate territory of the city in a forest park area of about 25 hectares, on which there are 8 educational buildings, 2 research institutes, scientific laboratories, a library with a fund of 920,000 volumes, a campus, a sports complex, a dispensary, and a canteen.
The university is a co-executor of the International Space Program Alpha, as well as scientific projects with companies in the USA, Japan, Germany, Mexico, the Netherlands, and China.
