It was established in 1930 as Kerch Mining and Smelting
Tekhnikum () to support the and the . Having trained about a thousand graduates by the time of the
German invasion in 1941, the tekhnikum was eventually evacuated to the
Urals to later return to Kerch in 1945. Thereafter, it produced various specialists to work in metallurgical regions of Ukraine and at the Soviet
Ministry of Ferrous Metallurgy, remaining the sole special secondary educational institution in the city until 1952. The tekhnikum changed its profile and became a polytechnic in 1990. In 2011, it has been reorganized into Kerch Polytechnic College of the
National University of Food Technologies (). Shortly after the
annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation, the college was nationalized under Order of the
State Council of Crimea on 11 April 2014. On 7 April 2015, the Museum of Battle Glory was opened at the college on the initiative of its tutor Vitaly Nekrasov. The Kerch Tekhnikum of Service Industry (found in 1925) was merged with Kerch Polytechnic College in 2016. He was later identified as 18-year-old
Vladislav Roslyakov, a student at the college. ==Notable alumni==