Activities of the Construction Committee for purchasing building materials to establish buildings of the Siberian university in the city of Tomsk

The purpose of this article is to study the activities of the Construction Committee for the acquisition of building materials for the construction of buildings of the Imperial Tomsk University. In addition, the article examines the contribution of V.M. Florinsky in the process of collecting building materials. The object of the study is the history of construction of the Imperial Tomsk University, and the subject - the activities of the Construction Committee, aimed at the organization of construction works. To solve this problem, the author of the article analyzed the journals of the Construction Committee, based on which the main circle of contractors of the Construction Committee was identified. The author then examined the contracts that the Construction Committee had entered into with the contractors, and was also mapped to the above contracts with private sources to members of the Construction Committee. After that, the information was converted into a single system of actions of the Construction Committee, which was aimed at the purchase of building materials for the construction of the Siberian University. In the final part of the study the influence of the economic method of purchasing materials not only on the course of construction works, but also on the further economic development of Siberia was considered. As the sources of the research may be emphasized, firstly, the journals of the Construction Committee, kept by the Department of manuscripts and book monuments of the Scientific library of TSU, which reflect the official part of the relationship of the Construction Committee, as a state institution, with Siberian contractors of building materials. Secondly, the documents stored in the national Museum of the Republic of Tatarstan in the Fund of V.M. Florinsky, based on which were reconstructed personal relations of members of the Construction Committee with contractors. Thirdly, the materials from the State Archive of Tomsk region, which allowed to study the conditions of contracts, as well as to assess the amount of construction materials performed by contractors' obligations that they assumed at the conclusion of contracts. In the course of the study, the author came to the conclusions that, firstly, the Construction Committee has done a significant amount of work to find qualified contractors ready to perform their tasks at the lowest prices. Secondly, were collected in sufficient quantity all necessary materials for the construction of the Siberian University. Thirdly, as a result of the increased demand for construction materials, the number of contractors engaged in procurement of construction materials has increased. This in turn led not only to a gradual decrease in the initial cost of building materials, but also contributed to the construction boom in Siberia and the growth of Siberian cities.

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