Railway engineers in prerevolutionary Russia and their activity in Russian Far East

Abstract

As in XIX century in Russia there was a period of intensive development of transport, there appeared a new speciality - engineers of lines of communication. Owing to excellent training experience, its representatives gained versatile knowledge which allowed them to work in the most various branches of transport and industry. In prerevolutionary Russia they represented technical and scientific elite of the country and played a great role in its development and, especially, in opening up new, huge spaces of Siberia and Far East.