Kiev University was established in 1833,
Much later, in 1898, Kiev Polytechnical Institute was started.
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Plotnikov (1873-1947), graduate of Moscow University, arrived to Kiev on the initiative of his supervisor, active chemist Mikhail Ivanovich Konovalov (1858-1906), who served as the organizer of Kiev Polytechnical Institute. He is internationally recognized for his studies of non-aqueous solutions with insights of the role of complex formation, and also for very early (1902) observation of aluminum metal formation in non-aqueous solutions under cathodic polarization. The influence of Plotnikov and his school on the studies of solutions and melts cannot be overestimated. Here is the article dedicated to his century, in Ukrainian.
Among the Institutes of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, “the most electrochemical” is the Institute of Inorganic and General Chemistry named after V.I. Vernadskyi (the former Institute of Chemistry, where V.A. Plotnikov was the first director).
Yuryi Konstantinovich Delimarskyi (1904-1990)
Aleksandr Vladimirovich Gorodyskyi (1930-1992)
Institute of Physical Chemistry named after L.V. Pisarzhevskyi (moved to Kiev in 1944 from Ufa, where it was temporarely located in 1941-1944) also supported some electrochemical research inherited from the early period of this institute in Dnipro. Electrochemistry (mostly technical, but not only) is also widely distributed in other Institutes in Kiev, including applied institutions and companies.
Yakov Filippovich Mezhennyi (1904-1967) worked in Kiev Agricultural Institute
A list of representative publications provides some examples of electrochemistry in Kiev. Systematic consideration can be found in this review article with 112 Refs, in Ukrainian.