Kerch Polytechnic College (russian: Керченский политехнический колледж, translit=Kerchenskiy politekhnicheskiy kolledzh) is a higher education institution in

Kerch Kerch ( uk, Керч; russian: Керчь, ; Old East Slavic: Кърчевъ; Ancient Greek: , ''Pantikápaion''; Medieval Greek: ''Bosporos''; crh, , ; tr, Kerç) is a city of regional significance on the Kerch Peninsula in the east of t ...

Crimea Crimea, crh, Къырым, Qırım, grc, Κιμμερία / Ταυρική, translit=Kimmería / Taurikḗ ( ) is a peninsula in Ukraine, on the northern coast of the Black Sea, that has been occupied by Russia since 2014. It has a pop ...

. It trains personnel in 16 specialties, and about 300 students enroll for first-year studies at the college annually.

History

It was established in 1930 as Kerch Mining and Smelting

Tekhnikum A tekhnikum (russian: техникум) is a type of vocational school in the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union, as well as in modern Russia, Ukraine and some other post-Soviet states. The term was borrowed from 19th-century German education, where ...

() to support the and the . Having trained about a thousand graduates by the time of the German invasion in 1941, the tekhnikum was eventually evacuated to the

Urals The Ural Mountains ( ; rus, Ура́льские го́ры, r=Uralskiye gory, p=ʊˈralʲskʲɪjə ˈɡorɨ; ba, Урал тауҙары) or simply the Urals, are a mountain range that runs approximately from north to south through European ...

to later return to Kerch in 1945. Thereafter, it produced various specialists to work in metallurgical regions of Ukraine and at the Soviet

Ministry of Ferrous Metallurgy The Ministry of Ferrous Metallurgy (Minchermet; russian: Министерство чёрной металлургии СССР) had been a government ministry in the Soviet Union. History The all-union commissariat of Ferrous Metallurgy was estab ...

, remaining the sole special secondary educational institution in the city until 1952. The tekhnikum changed its profile and became a polytechnic in 1990. In 2011, it has been reorganized into Kerch Polytechnic College of the

National University of Food Technologies The National University of Food Technologies is a Ukrainian university located in Kyiv, Ukraine. Campus The campus includes eight buildings. Building "A" hosts the University administration section, Assembly Hall, Academic Council Hall, Dean o ...

( uk, Керченський політехнічний коледж Національного університету харчових технологій). Shortly after the annexation of Crimea by Russia, the college was nationalized under Order of the

State Council of Crimea The State Council of Crimea (russian: Госуда́рственный Сове́т Респу́блики Крым, uk, Державна Рада Республіки Крим, crh, Къырым Джумхуриетининъ Девлет Ш ...

on 11 April 2014. On 7 April 2015, the Museum of Battle Glory was opened at the college on the initiative of its tutor Vitaly Nekrasov. The Kerch Tekhnikum of Service Industry (found in 1925) was merged with Kerch Polytechnic College in 2016. On 17 October 2018, it was the site of the

Kerch Polytechnic College massacre The Kerch Polytechnic College massacre was a school shooting and bomb attack that occurred in Kerch, Crimea, on 17 October 2018. 18-year-old student Vladislav Roslyakov killed 20 people and wounded 70 others before committing suicide. It was th ...

, in which 20 people were killed and 70 injured. The perpetrator subsequently committed suicide at the scene.

Notable alumni

* (1921–1943) –

Hero of the Soviet Union The title Hero of the Soviet Union (russian: Герой Советского Союза, translit=Geroy Sovietskogo Soyuza) was the highest distinction in the Soviet Union, awarded together with the Order of Lenin personally or collectively for ...

, junior lieutenant. * (1920–1945) – Hero of the Soviet Union, sergeant.

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