The rector of the university

Rectors

• The founder and the first director of the institute (until 1931) was I. O. Besedovskyi.
• From 1931 to 1933 P.K. Tysiachnyi was the director of KhAHI.
• From 1933 to 1937 M.M. Chupis headed the institute.
• From 1938 to 1941 A.P. Khmelnytskyi
• From 1945 to 1959 O.K. Birulia was the rector of KhAHI.
• From 1959 to 1978. Assoc. Prof. B.V. Reshetnikov headed the institute.
• From 1978 to 1992 I.M. Grushko was the rector of KhAHI.
• In 1992 Prof. A.M. Turenko was elected as the rector.
• In 2020, V.O. Bogomolov, Academician of the Transport Academy of Ukraine, laureate of State Prize of Ukraine, was elected as the rector of Kharkiv National Automobile and Highway University (KhNAHU)