Training of specialists with higher technical education in the specialty “Road Construction Machines” begins in 1937. The teaching staff of the department was formed from the number of experienced engineers-practitioners: G.I. Litvin, Ya.M. Pskovskyi, I.P. Borodachov, who became the first Head of the Department of Construction and Road-Building Machinery (CRBM). At his initiative a training and scientific training ground, where students and postgraduate students of the department have the opportunity to become acquainted and carry out experiments with a variety of modern engineering machinery and equipment was started and organized.