Metinvest Polytechnic
6/16/2025
Five Years of Growth: How Metinvest Polytechnic Is Building the Future of Engineering Education
Metinvest Polytechnic, Ukraine’s first private mining and metals university, is celebrating its fifth anniversary. To mark the occasion, Yuriy Ryzhenkov, CEO of Metinvest Group, sent letters of appreciation to its employees, lecturers, researchers and partners.This recognises the contribution of everyone who was there at the outset of the new university, which trains production leaders capable of overcoming complex technological challenges and driving innovative change in the industry.Tetiana PETRUK, Chief Sustainability Officer at Metinvest, said: “The university has been operating successfully for five years now. We have our first cohort of master’s degree students and dozens of professional development programmes, and we feel genuine support from Metinvest Polytechnic in training our production workforce. We are faced with the task of addressing a staff shortage – Metinvest currently has nearly 4,000 vacancies – specifically through training specialists in-house. We have ambitious