Машинно-испытательная станция как база практической подготовки агроинженеров

Abstract

The new materials about V.P. Goryachkin have been recently found in the archives of the Museum of Agricultural Mechanics named after V.P. Goryachkin (Russian State Agrarian University - Moscow Timiryazev Agricultural Academy). These finding helped clarify and supplement information about the history of establishing the agro-engineering scientific and pedagogical school by Vasily Goryachkin at Moscow Agricultural Institute - Petrovskaya Agricultural Academy - Timiryazev Agricultural Academy. The newly discovered documents reveal some of the circumstances of the construction of the Machine Testing Station at Moscow Agricultural Institute in 1913, the establishing of the Faculty of Agricultural Mechanics of Timiryazev Agricultural Academy in 1928, as well as further training courses for teachers in the field of agricultural engineering. Documents related to the opening of the All-Union Institute of Agricultural Engineering in 1928 were also introduced into scientific circulation for the first time. Particularly valuable facts concerning the life and work of V.P. Goryachkin, can be found in the earliest memoirs about the great scientist, written by his closest student and long-term colleague Professor B.A. Krill in 1937, two years after the death of Vasily Goryachkin.