[3] Having trained about a thousand graduates by the time of the German invasion in 1941, the tekhnikum was eventually evacuated to the Urals 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, remaining the sole special secondary educational institution in the city until 1952.

In 2011, it has been reorganized into Kerch Polytechnic College of the National University of Food Technologies (Ukrainian: Керченський політехнічний коледж Національного університету харчових технологій).

[5] On 7 April 2015, the Museum of Battle Glory was opened at the college on the initiative of its tutor Vitaly Nekrasov.

[4] On 17 October 2018, Kerch Polytechnic College became the site of a mass shooting and bomb attack, in which 20 people were killed and 70 injured.