The Ivan Kozhedub National Air Force University is a state university administered by the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine and is located in the city of Kharkiv. The university is named in honor of the Soviet and Ukrainian military pilot Ivan Kozhedub.
History
The Kozhedub National University of the Air Force was created on 10 September 2003 on the basis of both the Kharkiv National Air Force Institute and Kharkiv Military University.
Lineage
It also is a descendant of two military academies and other nine military higher schools: Kharkiv Gritsevets Military Aviation Higher School of Pilots (1930-1993) Lenin Komsomol Military Aviation Radioelectrionical Higher School (1937-1993) Govorov Military Engineer Radiotechnical Air Defense Academy (1941-1993) Krylov Military Command-Engineer Higher School of the Strategic Missile Forces (1941-1993) Kharkiv Military Aviation Engineer Superior School (1941-1993) Poltava Vatutin Military Air Defense Missile Command Superior School (1941-1995) Chernihiv Leninsky Komsomol Military Aviation Pilots Superior School (1941-1995) Kyiv Vasilevsky Military Academy of the Army Air Defense Corps (1947-1994, see Ivan Chernyakhovsky National Defense University of Ukraine) Kirov Military Air Defense Missile Engineering Higher School (1937-1994) Kyiv Air Force Institute (1951-2000) Luhansk Donbas Proletariat Military Aviation Navigators Higher School (1966-1994)
University faculties
The university has a strong educational base. The total area of educational and laboratory premises of the university is more than 100 thousand square meters. Training sessions are held in classrooms equipped with computers, simulators and working models of weapons. The laboratories of the departments use modern laboratory facilities that allow to conduct research necessary to understand the principles of modern armaments and military equipment. There are 20 computer classes for students, cadets and students, which provide access to the World Wide Web.
To provide cadets and students with practical skills in the specialty, the university has: an aviation training brigade with a training complex for the training of air defense specialists; training ground; training complex of aviation simulators; educational and training complexes of faculties and departments; sports complex. The university has a unique library, which is one of the best libraries of public educational institutions. Its scientific and technical fund includes more than 1.3 million publications. In 2007–2008, the university developed an electronic library to support the educational process, which contains 4088 units of educational and methodological publications. Flight Faculty Engineering and Aviation Faculty Faculty of Air Defense of Ground Forces Faculty of Anti-Aircraft Missile Forces Faculty of Automated Control Systems and Ground Support of Aviation Flights Faculty of Radio-Technical Air Defense Forces Faculty of Information and Technical Systems Faculty of Postgraduate Education College of NCOs Faculty of Training Reserve Officers The Kharkiv University of the Air Force reports to 203 training air brigades located in Chuguev, Kharkiv region. The equipped crews are L-39, An-26, An-26Sh.
The university trains qualified specialists in 9 areas and 18 specialties for the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Contribution to outer space
The contribution of the educational institution to the development of outer space is significant. Within the walls of the university mastered the basics of flying and received a ticket to the sky 27 astronauts. The first detachment of astronauts included our world-famous graduate OA Leonov - twice Hero of the Soviet Union, the first person to go into outer space. PI Klimuk, a graduate of the university, headed the astronaut training center for a long time. The university is proud of its graduates, awarded the Star of the Hero of Ukraine - the first cosmonaut of independent Ukraine - Major General Kadenyuk LK and Honored Test Pilot Colonel OV Galunenko.
Graduates of the university took part in peacekeeping operations in different parts of the world, eliminated the consequences of the Chernobyl tragedy, carried out combat duty, guarded the airspace of the state, held in their hands a missile shield of the Motherland. Over its long history, Kharkiv University of the Air Force has trained and graduated more than 125,000 officers.