To the 145th anniversary of the branch of the Rostov State Transport University in Voronezh

Abstract

This year is the 145th anniversary of the oldest educational institution, founded in 1878 as a railway college in the city of Voronezh. Over the long period of its existence it has undergone several reorganisations and today it is a part of the Rostov State Transport University (RSTU). For almost one and a half hundred years, qualifi ed specialists have been educated here, contributing to the functioning and development of railway transport in Russia.The article is based on the study of archival documents and periodicals concerning the history of the emergence and development of the branch of RSTU in Voronezh. The analysis of materials made it possible to restore the chronology of the history of the educational institution in the context of the main milestones in the development of railway transport from the second half of the 19th century to the present day. The documents obtained from state archives were systematised. For the first time the work with archival documents was carried out to reveal the history of formation and development of educational institutions of the railway industry. The main stages of organisation of the educational institution are defined: its reorganisation in 1922 into a technical school, then into a college and fi nally into a branch of the RSTU in Voronezh. The issues of the role and signifi cance of the educational institution in the life of the city, the region and the country as a whole are considered. The main historical epochs in the life of the educational institution are revealed: the pre-revolutionary stage of development, formation in the pre-war period, the years of The Great Patriotic War and the modern period.