Vladimir Sobolevsky biography

Sobolevsky, a famous mining engineer, corresponding member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences, Sobolevsky, graduated from the Military-Construction School of Railways, receiving the rank of warrant officer. With G., he began pedagogical activity with the teaching of chemistry. In the city of Sobolevsky, he was elected assistant to the professor in mineralogy, in the city of Sobolevsky he was elected a member of the training committee of the Main Directorate of Railways and Public Buildings, and in the city of being the inspector, he was engaged in the organization and improvement of the educational process, and ensured better training of the engineers of the route.

Sobolevsky was sent abroad to get acquainted with the state of academic work in famous technical educational institutions: at the Polytechnic School and the School of Roads and Bridges in France and the Central School of Arts and Crafts in Prussia. The result of the trip was a decision on the need to reform the institute and turn it into an open educational institution of a civil profile.

The draft Regulation on the institute was submitted by him on November 27. The institutional committee on the transformation of the Institute unanimously supported the proposal of the new rector. It was assumed that only special subjects should be taught at the institute on the basis of general education training of students in educational institutions of public education.

Students at the institute should study voluntarily, by vocation, and not by coercion.

Training in the officer classes was very expensive and economically little advisable, since their graduates rarely went to public service, preferring private practice. In addition, the releases of engineers were small. The country, freed from serfdom, developed violently and demanded a large number of engineering personnel. The efforts of V. Sobolevsky and with the support of the chief control routes and public buildings by P.

Melnikov, the Institute of the Corps of Railway Engineers, together with the institute, was to the city of graduates of the Institute with G. at the suggestion of Sobolevsky at the Institute of Sobolevsky, who worked at the institute for more than 50 years, had great authority as an outstanding teacher, a scientist and an engineer of the route. He actively participated in the work of various conferences, meetings, committees and commissions.

Sobolevsky was elected the Academy of Arts by Honorary Free Common Complete. In November, the Sobolevsky conference of the institute was awarded the title of the honorary member of the institute and decided to establish his marble bust in the library. Sobolevsky died in St. Petersburg, was buried in the Novodevichy cemetery.