Military Institute of Telecommunications and Information Technologies

Military Institute of Telecommunications and Information Technologies (Ukrainian: Військовий інститут телекомунікацій та інформатизації, Viyskovyi instytut telekomunikatsiy ta informatyzatsii) is an institution of higher military education in Ukraine and part of the State University of Telecommunications, located in Pechersk neighborhood of Kiev. In the Soviet times (since 1965) it was known as the Kiev Military Engineering College of Signal (Ukrainian: Київське вище військове інженерне училище зв'язку імені М. І. Калініна).

In 2001 – 2013 it was part of the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute. It is an important educational center for high-tech electronics and telecommunications and has a branch in Poltava.

The institute is located in the same building as the original city's school of cantonists that was built in Kiev in 1839. In 1865 on decree of the Russian Emperor Alexander II, the school was transformed into the Kiev Infantry Cadet School. In 1897 it was renamed again into the Kiev Military School and just before World War I into the 1st Kiev Military School.

In the fall of 1915 it was renamed into the 1st Kiev Konstantinovskoye Military School in the memory of past away Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich of Russia. In November 1917 the school's students participated in extinguishing the Kiev Bolshevik Uprising as part of the city's garrison. In course of the event some 42 people of the school including staff and students died on the streets of Kiev. After the power in the city transferred to the Central Council of Ukraine, some school personnel left the city for the Don Host Oblast and eventually with occupation of Ukraine by the Denikin's troops founded another school in Crimea in 1919, which was liquidated in 1920 by the Soviet regime.

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