Military Institute of Telecommunications and Information Technologies

The Military Institute of Telecommunication and Information Technologies named after the Heroes of Kruty (Ukrainian: Військовий інститут телекомунікацій та інформатизації імені Героїв Крут, romanized: 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 Kyiv.

In the Soviet times (since 1965) it was known as the Kyiv Military Engineering College of Signal (Ukrainian: Київське вище військове інженерне училище зв'язку імені М. І. Калініна).

In the fall of 1915 it was renamed into the 1st Kiev Konstantinovskoye Military School[1] in the memory of passed away Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich of Russia.

[2] As the 1st Ukrainian Military School of Bohdan Khmelnytsky students under the command of Averkiy Honcharenko took part in the Battle of Kruty.

The institute was founded back in Soviet times as "Kiev Higher Military Radio-Technical Engineering School" (Russian: Киевское высшее инженерное радиотехническое училище, КВИРТУ, abbreviated KVIRTU).