History of the University
The biography of the educational institution begins in 1900. Then the seven-year technical college was created in the town of Alexandrovsk (since 1924 - Zaporizhzhya). It prepared experts with the technical qualification. The director of the school was an experienced engineer and teacher D.M. Podderyogin, who headed it for18 years.
The main buildings were built simultaneously with the educational work. The main three-storied building, workshops, the gymnastic hall, and apartments for employees were erected very soon. The shop of production, the audiences, physical and mechanical cabinets, laboratories, conference hall were located in the educational building.
Well arranged studies, equipped workshops of the faculties: joiner's, model, mechanical, metal worker's, blacksmith's, foundry - enabled the college staff to turn out qualified technical and mechanical engineers. At the end of the 1st decade 240 students were studying in the college at the same time. Its graduates worked successfully at the machine-building enterprises, and this fact favoured the promotion of the college's authority and its recognition. It was considered as one of the best colleges not only in Ukraine, but also in Europe.
In 1920 the college was reorganized into Zaporizhzhya Industrial Technical School with four-years studies (with the rights of a higher education establishment). From November, 1922 according to the new system of national education in Ukraine (till 1930) the Technical School was an educational institution, which trained mechanical engineers for agricultural machine building and engineers for machine industry. Many graduates of the Technical School became well-known experts of industry and statesmen.
Marshal of Aviation Sudets V.Î., minister of the power engineering and electrification of the USSR Mayorets À.I., vice-president of Ministerial Council of the USSR Lesechko M.Ê. are among them.
The main building of the University (1924)
  In 1930 the technical college was transformed into the Institute of Agricultural Machine Building which trained engineers on four majors: tractor and agricultural engineering, metal processing and founding. During 10 years before the Great Patriotic War 782 engineers received their diplomas here. They worked further at Zaporizhzhya plants - the Combine Plant, the Engine Building Plant and others. The graduates of those years thought well of their tutors - Ivlev Ì.Ì., Unger L.À., Zhurbitsky V.Î., senior lecturers - Gurvych Î.I., Dydenko Î.G., Martynenko V.V., Natapov B.S., Isakov L.G., Yakovenko G.Î.

In hard years of war more than 500 students and tutors of the higher educational establishment went to the front, 52 studied in artillery academy named after Dzerzhynsky F.E., 30 students completed an intensive course of the academy of armoured forces. More than 300 students and tutors were honored with awards and medals for heroism and courage on the fronts. More than 50 of our warriors never came back home from the war: the officers - artillerymen Grigory Bobrov and Mykola Ivanchenko, the pilot - fighter Olexy Kozachkov, the soldiers Viktor Bozhko and Anatoly Artyuh...

In 1941 the institute was evacuated to the city of Barnaul in Altay land, and continued to train experts for national economy. And later on the basis of the institute the Altay Polytechnic Institute was established.

After the liberation of Zaporizhzhya from fascists the Zaporizhzhya Automechanical Institute was arranged in 1944 and in three years it became Zaporizhzhya Agricultural Machine Building Institute, and in 1955 it was renamed into Machine Building Institute. In 1980 the Institute was awarded to the order "The Sign of Honour" for its large work on training specialists for national economy. From 1930 till 1995 the higher educational establishment has prepared over 41 thousand engineers, 825 of whom are from foreign countries.

A sufficient contribution into development of the aviation industry was made by the graduate of the Institute, the former director of IN "Motorobudivnyk", the Hero of the Socialist Work, doctor of engineering science, Professor V.I.Omelchenko.

Taking into account the sufficient contribution of the Institute into the preparation of engineers for Zaporizhzhya region, and also its high level of the scientific and pedagogical potential, material and technical base, according to the decree of the Ukrainian Cabinet of Ministers of April 20, 1994 the Technical University was established on the basis of the Machine Building Institute.

Technical University today
  It is the oldest and the leading one in the region. The University prepares experts at 10 faculties of the full-time and the extra-mural training: Machine Building, Transport, Physical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Radio Engineering, Information and Computer Technics, Economics and Management, Humanities, Distance Education, Post-Diploma Education.
  The preparation of the future entrants for entering and further studies at the University is held at the Preparatory Faculty.
  The retraining in the fields of computers and automation systems, and economics and management is carried out by the Post-Diploma Faculty.
  21 of 43 chairs of the University turn out specialists on 31 majors of the machine building, metallurgical, radio and electrical engineering, economic and computer profiles. There is also Military Chair where the reserve officers are trained simultaneously with the full-time training.
  The high level of experts training is reached due to the usage of the advanced methods in the educational process: problem lectures, business games, industrial situations, projection and video devices, computer classes on the basis of personal computers. With the purpose of implementation of new information computer technologies in the educational process and scientific researches an information and computer network was created on the basis of modern technics and software.
  Currently the University has more than 9000 students including 5800 full-time students.
The educational process is carried out by 670 lecturers, 460 of whom have scientific degrees and scientific ranks, including 47 professors, doctors of sciences, 24 are members and correspondents of National Academies of Ukraine of different branches, 11 Honored Scientists, Honored Educational Workers, winners of the State Prizes.
  The University is headed by the rector, doctor of engineering science Belikov S.B.
  The University has 9 training and laboratory buildings, 5 student's hostels of 2300 places, including the one for families; library with more than 800000 editions of scientific and technical literature; a printing house equipped with a computer publishing complex, modern copying equipment. 2 sports camps ("Pine Forest" on the bank of the Dnieper and "Altagir" on the Azov seaside) are to the service of teachers, students and employees of the University. There is also a medical health centre, a sanatorium of 115 places, a sports complex, and a centre of public catering. The Technical University is well-known abroad, it maitains its business, scientific and cultural relations with educational institutions and organizations of Germany, Austria, Bulgaria, Poland, the United Kingdom, China, Russia, and France. It trains experts for the countries of Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
The University includes Tokmak Mechanical School.
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DATES TO REMEMBER
July 1, 1900. Opening of the Secondary seven-year Technical College in the city of Olexandrivsk, which was the first in Ukraine.

July 29, 1900. Prof. Podderyogin D.M. is appointed to the position of director of the College. He headed it till 1918.

1906. The first graduates from the College. Vlas Chubar was among them. Afterwards he became a distinguished statesman and politician.

July, 1917. The College is transformed into 4-class secondary one.

1920. The College is reorganized into Industrial Technical School (with the rights of higher educational establishment).

1923. The Agricultural faculty is opened in the Technical School.It trained agronomists.

February 11, 1924. The People's Commission of Ukraine conferred the name of Chubar V.Y. on the Zaporizhzhya Industrial Technical School.

August, 1941. The Institute is evacuated to the city of Barnaul of Altay Land.

March 27, 1944. The Institute resumed its work after the liberation of Zaporizhzhya from fascist.

July 31, 1944. The Zaporizhzhya Automechanical Institute was arranged on the basis of the Institute of Agricultural Machine Building including the faculties: founding, tractor and agricultural engineering. Prof. Bodzych M.I. is appointed to the position of director and worked there till 1957.

1947. The Institute is renamed into Zaporizhzhya Agricultural Machine Building Institute.

1948. The Evening Faculty is created in the Institute.

1955. The Tractor Engineering Faculty is renamed into the Automechanical.

1957. The Agricultural Machine Building Faculty is renamed into the Machine Building Faculty.

1957. Prof. Myhailov P.A. is appointed to the position of rector of the Institute and worked there till 1978.

1959 The Post-Graduate Facultyis openeg in the Institute.

March, 1960. The first issue of a large-circulation newspaper "Engineer-Machinebuilder".

1961. The Electrotechnical Faculty is created.

1962. The general Technical Faculty is created.

1968. The Faculty of Electronic Technics is created.

1969. The Preparatory Faculty with the full-time and evening-classes is created.

1978 Prof. Popov V.S. is appointed to the position of rector of the Institute and worked there till 1993.

April 29, 1980. The Institute is awarded to the order "The Sign of Honor" for its big work on the specialists training for the national economy.
1980.The specialized scientific council for thesis defense is opened. It works on the following majors: material science in machine building? mechanics of the deformed solid body.
1986. The General Technical Faculty was reorganized into the Extra-Mural Faculty.

1987. The Special Faculty for retraining is opened.

1989. The Faculty of Electronic Technology is renamed into the Radio Engineering.

1989. The joint Ukrainian-Bulgarian firm "Intersystem" is created.

1990. The Institute is conferred to the right to accept international students for studies, probation work and post-graduate studies by direct contracts.

1993 Professor P.G.Krasnokutsky is appointed to the position of rector of the Institute and worked on this position till August, 1997.

April 20, 1994. Zaporizhzhya State Technical University is arranged on the basis of Zaporizhzhya Machine Building Institute named after Chubar V.Ya.

1994. The Faculty of Economics and Management is opened.

1994. Special scientific council for doctoral thesis defense on the major "Material science in machine building" is opened.

1995. The University computer printing complex is created.

1995. The Special Faculty for Retraining is renamed into the Faculty of Post-Diploma Education.

1997 Professor S.B.Belikov is appointed to the position of rector of the University.

2000 (November 19) - The 100-year anniversary of the University.

2001 (August 7) - Taking into account the general national and international recognition of the results of its work and its sufficient contribution into the development of the national education and science, according to the Order of President of Ukraine the Zaporizhzhya State Technical University is conferred to the status of "National" and is further named as "Zaporizhzhya National Technical University".

Address and telephones:
69063, Ukraine, Zaporizhzhya,    Zhukovsky street, 64.
Telephone (0612) 64-25-06
Fax          (0612) 64-21-41