Nikolai Nikolajewitsch Katschalow the Elder

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Nikolai Nikolajewitsch Katschalow the Elder

Nikolai Nikolaevich Kachalov the Elder ( Russian Николай Николаевич Качалов старший born April 29 . Jul / 11. May  1852 greg. In the province of Nizhny Novgorod , † May 1. . Jul / 14. May  1909 . Greg on the Crimea ) was a Russian Officer , electrical engineer and university professor .

Life

Katschalow came from an old Russian noble family . His father was the secret council and director of the customs department of the Ministry of Finance Nikolai Alexandrovich Kachalov .

Katschalow graduated from the naval cadet school (graduation 1869) and the Nikolai naval academy (graduation 1876) in St. Petersburg and finally the mining school in Kronstadt (graduation 1879). He took part in the Russo-Ottoman War (1877–1878) and then married (in his first marriage) Olga Lwowna geb. Blok (1861–1900), sister of the lawyer Alexander Lwowitsch Blok and aunt of the poet Alexander Alexandrowitsch Blok . In 1878 Katschalow became a military attaché at the Russian embassy in Berlin . Since the family did not like life in the big city, they settled in the Dresden villa suburb of Loschwitz .

Main building of the Electrotechnical Institute (ETI) on St. Petersburg's Aptekarski Island on Professor Popow Street

1886–1895 Katschalow was inspector of the Russian Post Telegraph Office . He then became director of the St. Petersburg Imperial Electrotechnical Institute (ETI) Alexander III. as the successor to the late Nikolai Grigoryevich Pissarewski . He chaired the special building commission for the construction of the buildings of the Electrotechnical Institute and built the main building on Aptekarsky Island, for which he received 1.6 million rubles from the imperial family budget. In 1905 he became governor of the Arkhangelsk governorate . His successor in the ETI was Alexander Stepanowitsch Popow . In 1907 Katschalow resigned from the service for health reasons in order to be treated in the Crimea .

The children Olga (1878–1940), Sofia (1880–1967), Nikolai (1883–1961, chemist and co-founder of the production of optical glasses in Russia ), Lvov (1888–1975), Kirill (1893–1937) survived from Katschalov's first marriage ) and Marija (1900-1883).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Санкт-Петербургский государственный электротехнический университет «ЛЭТИ» им. В.И. Ульянова (Ленина) (СПбГЭТУ "ЛЭТИ") (accessed January 11, 2017).
  2. ↑ a b c d e С.Н.Тутолмина: Отец и сын Качаловы (accessed on January 11, 2017).
  3. ↑ a b Санкт-Петербургский государственный электротехнический университет «ЛЭТИ» им. В.И. Ульянова (Ленина) (СПбГЭТУ "ЛЭТИ"): История СПбГЭТУ (accessed January 11, 2017).
personal data
SURNAME Katschalow, Nikolai Nikolajewitsch the Elder
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Старший, Николай Николаевич Качалов (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian officer, electrical engineer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH May 11, 1852
PLACE OF BIRTH Nizhny Novgorod Governorate
DATE OF DEATH May 14, 1909
Place of death in the Crimea