Military engineer and educator colonel Pavel Pavlovich Golyshev: aspects of biography and performance

In the article by the example of the fate of Colonel Pavel Pavlovich Golyshev, a military engineer and teacher who consistently served in the Russian Imperial, White and Red Armies, who later became a teacher of a civilian institute in Omsk, the problem of incorporating a representative of the “alien” category of “former people” into Soviet society is examined. Studying this question, modem historiography often turns to biographical research, which allows to more fully revealing the topic, touching on a maximum of various aspects of military, social and political history. Separate works on the life and professional path of the hero of the story, who participated in the first third of the twentieth century in the formation of the architectural appearance of the cities of Kazan and Omsk, do not exist. The purpose of the study is to reconstruct the biography of P.P. Golyshev on the basis of historical sources identified by the author of the article. The use of the historical-biographical method as a key method in the preparation of a work is determined from its genre. Achieving the goal of the study is due to the solution of the following tasks: 1) to identify and comprehensively analyze available historical sources on the stated topic; 2) indicate the circumstances that influenced the formation of personality and professional path of the hero of the article; 3) to analyze the results of the life path of P.P. Golyshev, comparing with the fate of his colleagues in the military and civil service in Omsk. The basis for the preparation of the study was unpublished sources from the funds of the Historical Archive of the Omsk Region, dating from the 1920s - the first half of the 1930s. The documents used have a high degree of representativeness. They are part of two personal files of the hero of the article, in the investigation file of the Omsk Provincial Revolutionary Tribunal, in materials on the special account of the OGPU of the ex-whites, depriving Omsk residents of suffrage. In the course of the study, the theoretical and practical contribution of P.P. Golyshev in the development of civil engineering was emphasized. The fate of the hero of the article, who became a “former” in Soviet society, shows, along with a reflection of the military history, peculiarities of the social and political everyday life of our society during the Civil War and in the first years after its end. As can be seen from the analysis of the revealed sources, the hero of the article, despite repeated political oppression, thanks to his personal energy and possession of the required engineering and technical knowledge, was nevertheless able to find a worthy place and professional implementation in Soviet Russia. But, according to the author, it was professional specialization that allowed the hero of the article to remain “outside of politics”, and P.P. Golyshev was allowed to pass on his experience to new generations of military and civil engineers.

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