UPTI – Ukrainian Institute of Physics and Technology. This is where Soviet nuclear physics was born… The complex, founded in 1928, is located at Gudanova Street, 13.

In the 1930s, Nobel laureate Lev Landau worked here; his office, like the corridors of the institute, is imbued with the spirit of geniuses and their discoveries.

The main building, designed in the Constructivist style, was built in 1929–1930 according to a design by architects P. Sidorov and V. Bogomolov.

Photoplates for nuclear research.

The old campus of Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology is located on Gudanova Street, while the main research is conducted at the new complex in the north of Kharkiv, in the Piatykhatky district.

Incidentally, the institute was built using beams from the battleship *Empress Maria*, Admiral Kolchak’s flagship. The ship sank off Sevastopol in late 1916, but was later raised and scrapped for metal.

A monument to UPTI staff members who died during World War II has been erected on the institute’s grounds.

Modern campuses of the Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology in Piatykhatky neighborhood were severely damaged by Russian rocket strikes in 2022.