Kerch Polytechnic College


Kerch Polytechnic College is a higher education institution in Kerch, Crimea. 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 to support the Kamysh-Burun Iron Ore Plant and the Voykov Metals Factory. 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 Ministry of Ferrous Metallurgy of the USSR, 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.
Shortly after the annexation of Crimea by Russia, the college was nationalized under Order of the State Council of Crimea 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 was merged with Kerch Polytechnic College in 2016.
On 17 October 2018, it was the site of the Kerch Polytechnic College massacre, in which 20 people were killed and 70 injured. The perpetrator committed suicide at the scene.

Notable alumni