The emergence and activities of the History of Technology Department at the Kiev Polytechnic Institute (1948–1958)

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The article analyzes the activities of the History of Technology Department at the Kiev Polytechnic Institute and, in particular, shows how the course in the history of technology was developed at the Department and delivered to students. Much attention is given to educational and publishing efforts of the head of the Department, A. Yu. Golyan-Nikolskii. The department staff’s interactions with different organizations and higher education institutions in the Ukrainian SSR are described. It is emphasized that, over the decade of its existence, the Department made a significant contribution to education in the history of technology in the Ukrainian SSR, having trained many talented graduates and published several textbooks and dozens of articles on the history of technology. Some sources from Ukrainian and Russian archives are introduced for scientific use for the first time.

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Alexander S. Platitsyn

S. I. Vavilov Institute for the History of Science and Technology, Russian Academy of Sciences

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Russian Federation, Ul. Baltiyskaya, 14, Moscow, 125315

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