The Yangon Technological University campus was another present by the Soviet Union that followed as a result of Secretary General Khrushchev’s state visit in 1958. When finished in 1961, the engineering faculty of Yangon University moved here. It became a university in its own right three years later in 1964. The students and teaching staff were in two minds given that they had to leave behind their beloved “Leik Khone” assembly hall next to today’s Yangon Medical University. This laminated timber paraboloid shaped hall only been completed a few years before and has since been demolished by the military regime. The campus in Insein comprises eight buildings, all connected via rain-proof corridors.
Posted on: Fri, 22 Aug 2014 03:30:00 +0000
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