The role of Russian engineers in the history of urban development in Western Siberia in the late 19th - early 20th centuries

The graduates of the leading educational institutions of architectural profile (Academy of Fine Arts, Moscow Palace Architectonic School and the Institute of Civil Engineers) were actively involved in the urban development of Western Siberia. At the end of the 19th century a new type of specialists appeared in Western Siberia. They were graduates of engineering (polytechnic and technological) Russian universities. The activity of graduates of these institutions in the architecture of the West Siberian town has never been researched. Active development of industry in the late 19th - early 20th centuries in Siberia, the development of its natural resources, the construction of the Great Siberian Railway track required the use of engineering and technical personnel in the construction. The main suppliers of engineering and technical personnel for Western Siberia were Riga and Kiev Polytechnic Universities, St. Petersburg, Kharkov and Tomsk Technological Institutes. In the urban development of Western Siberia in the late 19th - early 20th centuries, Riga Polytechnic Institute was represented by the activities of the following graduates: A. Langer and N. Obraztsov in the Tomsk Province; I. Sukhanov and A. Khmara in Omsk Oblast; L. Andrzhevsky in Tobolsk Province, A. Zimmerman in Barnaul. Among the graduates of Kiev Polytechnic Institute working in Western Siberia was P. Minyaev. The activities of A. Sorokin and N. Dobrokhotov, graduates of St. Petersburg Technological Institute who worked in Tomsk, should be emphasized. Graduates of Kharkov Technological Institute I. Boborykin and A. Sabekov were among the first who stood at the origins of the formation of technical education in Siberia. Both arrived in Tomsk in 1901 to teach in the newly opened Tomsk Technological Institute. A significant event in the life of Siberia engineering was the opening in 1900 of Tomsk Technological Institute. Its graduates N. Gorshenev, A. Bernstein, N. Beresnevich, P. Zemskov, P. Paramonov, N. Molotilov immediately began to take an active part in the urban development in Western Siberia. Thus, in the late 19th - early 20th centuries engineering and technical personnel began to play an increasingly important role in the urban development in Western Siberia. They designed and built civil and public buildings as well as taught in the newly established first Technological Institute in Siberia.

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