On 21 September Viktoria Strunina's book “Adam Ludwigovich Henrych: a look at Evpatoria” was presented and donated to the SPbGASU scientific and technical library took place at our university.

The publication from the “Sons of Russia” series is dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the birth of the first city architect, civil engineer, graduate of the Institute of Civil Engineers in the history of Evpatoria, Adam Ludwigovich Henrych (1869–1944). The book also tells about the work of other IGI graduates in Crimea.

Facts about the architect were shared by Lyubov Nemchikova, associate professor at the department of history of pedagogy and education of the Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia. As Lyubov Nemchikova said, Adam Henrych was the only one from his class who received a silver medal. When he accepted the offer to work in Evpatoria, he was 24 years old. The chief architect of Evpatoria from 1894 to 1919, Adam Henrych, turned the provincial town into a European resort city. Lyubov Nemchikova is sure that many student works can be written about the architect's activities.

In 2019, the Headquarters of Architect Henrych, headed by Viktoria Strunina, organized a scientific and practical conference “The Architectural Appearance of Evpatoria: History and Modernity”. The activities of the headquarters are aimed at protecting cultural heritage sites, studying history and popularizing Evpatoria. From SPbGASU, Nina Petukhova, associate professor at the Department of Architectural and Urban-Planning Heritage, and Elena Chernaya, lecturer at the Department of Drawing, took part in the conference.

Based on archival materials, Elena Chernaya became acquainted with the methods of teaching fine arts at the IGI. This technique was distinguished by a clearly structured system of tasks - contrasting oppositions of depicted forms and spaces, from simple to more complex. According to the admission conditions in force in 1889, Henrych passed a difficult competition. In the process of studying, together with other students, he studied the works of masters, performed drawings from an idea, drawings from memory, drawings from life - everything that was needed to develop compositional skills. Under the guidance of Ivan Ivanovich Shaposhnikov (1833–1898), a teacher of the discipline “Watercolor Drawing,” Adam Henrych “practised in watercolor painting in two and three tones of architectural details: windows, doors and facades”.

Today, teachers of the Department of Drawing continue the traditions of their predecessors and give students deep, versatile knowledge.

Elena Romanova, head of the scientific and technical library, thanked everyone involved in the creation of the book, which will take its rightful place in the STL collection.

Viktoria Nikolaevna Strunina – PhD of Psychological Sciences, DSc in Philosophy, Associate Professor, Honored Education Worker of the Republic of Crimea, laureate of the State Prize of the Republic of Crimea, laureate of the Evpatoria City Prize named after S. E. Duvan, member of the council of the Crimean Republican branch of the All-Russian Society for the Protection of Historical and Cultural Monuments.