Kuban State Technological University (Russian: Кубанский государственный технологический университет), also referred to as the Kuban State University of Technology, located in Krasnodar, is one of the first higher educational institutions established in the southern region of Russia. It was founded on 16 June 1918 as North-Caucasian Polytechnic Institute. Professor Boris L.Rosing, a worldwide known physicist, the inventor of the electronic television, was one of the founders of the University.