Well-known experts in the field of lifting machines took part in creation of the Lifting and Transporting Machines and Equipment department.
The government commission headed by the prominent scientist in the field of lift machines, professor of St. Petersburg practical technological institute Vyshnegradskiy I.O. was deciding to make a base in Kharkov practical technological institute. In accordance with the decision of the Government Commission Kharkov practical Institute of Technology was founded in 1885.
Since 1888 Professor Tyr V.E. began teaching the “Theory and installation of lifting machines” course at the Kharkov Institute of Technology.
The Lifting and Transporting Machines and Equipment department was found by professor D.N. Tamarin in 1929 at the Kharkov practical technological institute. The department is a Ukrainian leader in the field of lifting and transport equipment.
More than 1,500 engineers were trained at the department, many of them occupy high administrative and managerial positions (ministers and their deputies, directors of factories and their assistants, heads of design organizations, eminent scientists).
Alumni of the department are
Leaders of the All-Union scale:
N.I. Novoselov, Minister of Construction and Road Engineering of the USSR;
G.P. Semenov, Deputy Minister of Heavy machinery of the USSR, U1 and U2 buildings were completed by his assistance;
Professors:
B.S. Kowalskiy, Honorary worker of science and technology of the Ukrainian SSR, doctor of technical sciences, professor;
B.I. Zhermunskiy, doctor of technical sciences, professor;
V.F. Gaydamaka, doctor of technical sciences, professor;
S.A. Kazak, doctor of technical sciences, professor, head of Handling machinery department at Ural Polytechnic Institute;
B.P. Rumyantsev, head of Handling machinery department, rector of the Luhansk Machine Building Institute, professor, founder of the V. Dahl East Ukrainian National University.
Chiefs of factories and enterprises in Ukraine:
B.F. Zherdev, director of the Nikopol Crane plant;
V.P. Fedak, director of PKI “Soyuzprommehanizatsiya”;
G.I. Podolyaka, director of PKI “Soyuzprommehanizatsiya”;
K.M. Manilov, chief designer of the C;
D.Y. Klugman, chief engineer of PKI “Soyuzprommehanizatsiya”;
M.T. Cherednichenko, chief engineer “Azovstal” plant;
I.P. Zavorotny, chief engineer of Handling machinery department.
Graduates of the department at Kharkov Polytechnic Institute in recent years were P.G. Losev, S.A. Pashkina, O.V. Grigorov, Y.S. Zaire-Beck, L.I. Garmash, I.P. Demkovsky, S.V. Bobov, A.S. Rahmaniy, N.A. Proshina, V.A. Kovalenko, N.A. Petrenko, S.A. Gubskiy and others, they defended candidate and doctoral theses and became lecturers. Prof. D.Sc O.V. Grigorov from 1976 to 1984 and currently manages the department since 1991.
5 doctoral and 24 candidate’s theses were defended at the department.
The department made significant progress in the study and creation of handling machines and their components.