Exhibits
On 8 November, the "Raznochinny Petersburg" memorial museum opened an exhibition called "The Golden Age of Engineers." Among the exhibits are four items from the collection of the SPbGASU History Information Center.
Our university has donated to the museum for temporary use the Charter of the Society of Civil Engineers (1914); the ID card of a first-year student of the Institute of Civil Engineers of Emperor Nicholas I, Alfred Maksimilianovich Knopmus, issued in 1907; a photo portrait of Tamara Lvovna Pivovarskaya-Kvin, the first woman to receive the title of civil engineer in 1924; and an explanatory note to the metro project – the diploma work of a student of the Institute of Civil Engineers, Nikolai Pavlyuk (1921).
"The exhibition is intended to highlight the importance of the engineering profession. In pre-revolutionary Russia, getting an engineering education was very prestigious, and the district where the School of Civil Engineers (now SPbGASU) appeared in 1832 was considered a kind of "Latin Quarter". Here in 1809, the Institute of the Corps of Railway Engineers (now the St Petersburg State Transport University) was established. In 1828, the Technological Institute was founded," said Elena Klimenko, director of the History Information Center.
According to Elena Viktorovna, many engineers of that time possessed encyclopedic knowledge. For example, Viktor Vladimirovich Evald (1860–1935), a scientist, civil engineer, teacher, creator of a mechanical laboratory and testing station at our university, founder of the first department of building materials in the Russian Empire, author of the first textbook on building materials, was also a composer and cellist.
The current generation of SPbGASU students has been set a high standard. They try to live up to it and study hard, because this opens up great professional opportunities for them.
The exhibition is open daily, except Monday, from 11:00 to 18:30, on Wednesday from 12:00 to 20:00. Address: St Petersburg, Bolshoy Kazachiy per., 9, museum "Raznochinny Petersburg".
