The thirteenth Minister of Railways of the Russian Empire Hiubbenet Adolf Yakovych (1831–1901)

Keywords: Minister of Railways, railway transport, water systems, construction of railways, technology, education

Abstract

The article is devoted to the analysis and systematized generalization of the totality of scientific facts that objectively characterize various aspects of life and activities of the thirteenth Minister of Railways of the Russian Empire, Adolf Yakovych Hiubbenet. In preparing the work were used, historical, comparative and biographical methods which made it possible to systematize and critically evaluate the sources used, compare assessment results of A.Ya. Hiubbenet by various authors, to highlight the main thing in the current state of studying the topic and the results of other researchers, to give a description of previous works on this issue and clearly separate the issues haven’t been solved yet. The sources analysis allowed giving an objective assessment of the contribution made by A.Ya. Hiubbenet into projects of nation-wide significance devoted to the subordination of the railway affairs to the state control, settlement of railway tariffs, subordination of railway tariffs to government supervision, determination of the access roads state and many others. It has been shoved that being the Minister of Railways A.Ya. Hiubbenet played an important role in the Institute of the Corps of Civil Engineers established in St. Petersburg. The paper has analyzed multi-vector activity of A.Ya. Hiubbenet as Minister of Railways of the Russian Empire. Based on assessments comparison made by various researchers as for measures adopted by A.Ya. Hiubbenet to improve the waterways of the Russian Empire, his role in solving the problem on restructuring of the Mariinska water system as a large-scale nationwide project, which provided for an immediate survey of all artificial waterways of the state with a view to resolving the issue of their future use has been shown. The paper establishes that due to A.Ya. Hiubbenet, the project quickly found support and was approved in 1890 by Emperor Alexander III, thanks to which the Special Commission was created, which in 1890-1892  researched Vyshnevolotsky, Berezinsky, Ohinsky and Dnipro-Bug water systems. This allowed us to outline a number of measures to improve radically and rapidly develop the waterways of the Russian Empire. The use of the biographical method allowed considering the personality of the thirteenth Minister of Communications of the Russian Empire Adolf Yakovych Hiubbenet as an individual, which made it possible to re-evaluate his life path.

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

References

Джерела та література

Елютин О.Н. «Золотой век» железнодорожного строительства в Росии и его последствия. Вопросы истории. 2004. №2. С. 47-57.

Петрученко О.А. Сергій Юлійович Вітте (1849-1915) – життя та діяльність. Питання історії науки і техніки. 2017. № 1. С. 33-40.

Гулидова Ю.И. Железндорожная революция в России во второй половине 19 – начале 20 века. Экономический журнал. 2011. Т.22. №2. С. 18-34.

Стрелко О.Г. Герман Єгорович Паукер (1822-1889): життя та діяльність. Емінак: науковий щоквартальник. НДЦ «Лукомор`є» Інституту археології НАН України. 2016. №3(15). Том 2. Київ-Миколаїв. с.103-109.

Гольянов А.Л. Гюббенет Адольф Яковлевич: Биография [Электронный ресурс]. – Режим доступа: http://www.pochet.ru/history-railways/legendary_railroaders/Hiubbenet-adolf-yakovlevich/. [Дата звернення 05.05.2018].

Зензинов Н.А. Министры путей сообщения: К 130-летию МПС России. Железнодорожный транспорт. 1995. №5. С.34-39.

Гюббенет Адольф Яковлевич / Энциклопедический словарь Брокгауза и Ефрона: в 86 т. Санкт-Петербург. 1890-1907.

Альманах современных русских государственных деятелей. Санкт-Петербург : Тип. Исидора Гольдберга, 1897. С. 137-138. 1250 c.

Марговенко А.И. Транссиб. Урал. 2007. №2. С. 233-236.

Barman R. Biography as history. Journal of the Canadian Historical Association/Revue de la Société historique du Canada. Т. 21. №2 . 2010. р. 61-75. https://doi.org/10.7202/1003088ar

Nasaw D. Historians and biography: Introduction. American Historical Review. 2009. Т.114. №3. р. 573-578. https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr.114.3.573

Banner L. Biography as history. American Historical Review. 2009. Т. 114. №3. р. 579-586. https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr.114.3.579

Magnússon S. The singularisation of history: Social history and microhistory within the postmodern state of knowledge. Journal of Social History. 2003. Т. 36. №3. р. 701-735. https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh.2003.0054

Rotberg R. Biography and history: Mutual evidentiary and interdisciplinary considerations. Journal of Interdisciplinary History. 2010. Т. 40. №3. р. 305-324. https://doi.org/10.1162/jinh.2010.40.3.305

A Companion to the Philosophy of History and Historiography / (Еd.) A. Tucker . John Wiley & Sons, 2011. Т. 107.

Mahoney J. Comparative-Historical Methodology. Annual Review of Sociology. – 2004. – Т. 30. – р. 81-101. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.soc.30.012703.110507

Comparative historical analysis in the social sciences / Mahoney J., Rueschemeyer D. (Eds.). Cambridge University Press, 2003. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511803963

Deflem M. Useless Tilly (et al.): Teaching comparative-historical sociology wisely. Trajectories. Newsletter of the ASA Comparative and historical sociology section. 2007. Т. 19. № 1. С. 14.

Sreedharan E. A Manual of Historical Research Methodology / Sreedharan E. Trivandrum, Centre for South Indian Studies, 2007.

Renders H. The biographical method. In H. Renders, & B. de Haan (Eds.), Theoretical discussions of biography: Approaches from history, microhistory, and life writing. Leiden: Brill, 2014. pp. 222-226. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004274709_019

Renders H. The biographical turn: Biography as a critical method in the humanities and in society. In H. Renders, B. de Haan, & J. Harmsma (Eds.), The biographical turn: Lives in history. London and New York: Routledge, 2017. pp. 3-12. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315469577

Loriga S. The plurality of the past: Historical time and the rediscovery of biography. In H. Renders, B. de Haan, & J. Harmsma (Eds.), The biographical turn: Lives in history. London and New York: Routledge, 2017. pp. 31–41.

Творчество и наследие М. М. Бахтина в контексте мировой культуры / Бахтин М. М.: pro et contra / Сост., и коммент. К. Г. Исупова; библиография О. Ю. Осьмухиной, Т. Г. Юрченко, О. Е. Осовского, Н. Б. Панковой. СПб.: РХГИ, 2002. Т. 2. 712 с.

Пилипчук О.Я., Стрелко О.Г. Костянтин Миколайович Посьєт (1819–1899): життя та діяльність (до 200-річчя від дня народження). История науки и техники. 2017. №10. С. 56-63. https://doi.org/10.32703/2415-7422-2017-7-10-56-63

Стрелко О. Г. Внесок СД Карейші в розвиток науки про залізничні станції та вузли Вісник Національного технічного університету ХПІ. Сер.: Історія науки і техніки. 2013. №. 48. С. 161-169.

Пилипчук О.Я., Стрелко О.Г. ПП Мельников: життя та діяльність. Історія науки і техніки. 2017. №. 11. С. 44-53.

Витте С.Ю. Воспоминания. Москва: Соцэкгиз. 1960. Т.1 (1849-1894). 556 с.

Соколов А. Управленческая элита Российской империи. История министерств. 1802-1917 / А. Соколов, Е. Андреева, Т. Андреева, А. Косопкин. Санкт-Петербург: Лики России, 2008. 693 с.

Исторические захоронения на Новодевичьем кладбище [Электронный ресурс]. Режим доступа: http://www.funeralassociation.ru. [Дата звернення 05.05.2018].

References

Elyutin, O. N. (2004). «Zolotoj vek» zheleznodorozhnogo stroitel'stva v Rosii i ego posledstviya ["Golden Age" of railway construction in Russia and its consequences]. Voprosy istorii – Questions of History, 2, 47-57 [in Russian].

Petruchenko, O. A. (2017). Serhii Yuliiovych Vitte (1849-1915) – zhyttia ta diialnist [Serhiy Yuliyovych Witte (1849-1915) – life and activity]. Pytannia istorii nauky i tekhniky – Questions of the history of science and technology, 1, 33-40 [in Ukrainian].

Gulidova, Yu. I. (2011). Zhelezndorozhnaya revolyuciya v Rossii vo vtoroj polovine 19 – nachale 20 veka [Railway revolution in Russia in the second half of the 19th - early 20th century]. Ehkonomicheskij zhurnal – Economic Journal, 22(2), 18-34 [in Russian].

Strelko, O. H. (2016). Herman Yehorovych Pauker (1822-1889): zhyttia ta diialnist [German Egorovich Pauker (1822-1889): life and activity]. Eminak: naukovyi shchokvartalnyk - Eminak: scientific quarterly, 2(3), 103-109 [in Ukrainian].

Gol'yanov, A. L. Hiubbenet Adol'f Yakovlevich: Biografiya [Hiubbenet Adolf Yakovlevich: Biography]. pochet.ru. Retrieved from http://www.pochet.ru/history-railways/legendary_railroaders/Hiubbenet-adolf-yakovlevich/ [in Russian].

Zenzinov, N. A. (1995). Ministry putej soobshcheniya: K 130-letiyu MPS Rossii [Ministers of Railways: To the 130th anniversary of the Ministry of Railways of Russia]. Zheleznodorozhnyj transport – Railway transport, 5, 34-39 [in Russian].

Hiubbenet Adol'f Yakovlevich [Hiubbenet Adolf Yakovlevich]. (1890-1907). Ehnciklopedicheskij slovar' Brokgauza i Efrona - In Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Sankt-Peterburg [in Russian].

Al'manah sovremennyh russkih gosudarstvennyh deyatelej – The almanac of modern Russian statesmen. (1897). Sankt-Peterburg: Рrinting house Isidora Gol'dberga.

Margovenko, A. I. (2007). Transsib [Transsib]. Ural – Ural, 2, 233-236 [in Russian].

Barman R. Biography as history. Journal of the Canadian Historical Association/Revue de la Société historique du Canada. Т. 21. №2 . 2010. р. 61-75. https://doi.org/10.7202/1003088ar

Nasaw D. Historians and biography: Introduction. American Historical Review. 2009. Т.114. №3. р. 573-578. https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr.114.3.573

Banner L. Biography as history. American Historical Review. 2009. Т. 114. №3. р. 579-586. https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr.114.3.579

Magnússon S. The singularisation of history: Social history and microhistory within the postmodern state of knowledge. Journal of Social History. 2003. Т. 36. №3. р. 701-735. https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh.2003.0054

Rotberg R. Biography and history: Mutual evidentiary and interdisciplinary considerations. Journal of Interdisciplinary History. 2010. Т. 40. №3. р. 305-324. https://doi.org/10.1162/jinh.2010.40.3.305

A Companion to the Philosophy of History and Historiography / (Еd.) A. Tucker . John Wiley & Sons, 2011. Т. 107.

Mahoney J. Comparative-Historical Methodology. Annual Review of Sociology. – 2004. – Т. 30. – р. 81-101. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.soc.30.012703.110507

Comparative historical analysis in the social sciences / Mahoney J., Rueschemeyer D. (Eds.). Cambridge University Press, 2003. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511803963

Deflem M. Useless Tilly (et al.): Teaching comparative-historical sociology wisely. Trajectories. Newsletter of the ASA Comparative and historical sociology section. 2007. Т. 19. № 1. С. 14.

Sreedharan E. A Manual of Historical Research Methodology / Sreedharan E. Trivandrum, Centre for South Indian Studies, 2007.

Renders H. The biographical method. In H. Renders, & B. de Haan (Eds.), Theoretical discussions of biography: Approaches from history, microhistory, and life writing. Leiden: Brill, 2014. pp. 222-226. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004274709_019

Renders H. The biographical turn: Biography as a critical method in the humanities and in society. In H. Renders, B. de Haan, & J. Harmsma (Eds.), The biographical turn: Lives in history. London and New York: Routledge, 2017. pp. 3-12. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315469577

Loriga, S. (2017). The plurality of the past: Historical time and the rediscovery of biography. In H. Renders, B. de Haan, & J. Harmsma (Eds.), The biographical turn: Lives in history (pp. 31–41). London and New York: Routledge.

Tvorchestvo i nasledie M. M. Bahtina v kontekste mirovoj kul'tury [M. M. Bakhtin's creativity and heritage in the context of world culture]. (2002). Bahtin M. M.: pro et contra. K. G. Isupova, O. Yu. Os'muhinoj, T. G. Yurchenko, O. E. Osovskogo, N. B. Pankovoj (Ed.). (Vol. 2). SPb.: RHGI. [in Russian].

Pylypchuk, O., Strelko, O. (2017). Kostiantyn Mykolaiovych Pos’iet (1819–1899): life and activity (to the 200th birthday anniversary). History of Science and Technology, (10), 56-63. [in Ukrainian]. https://doi.org/10.32703/2415-7422-2017-7-10-56-63

Strelko, O. H. (2013). Vnesok SD Kareishi v rozvytok nauky pro zaliznychni stantsii ta vuzly. Visnyk Natsionalnoho tekhnichnoho universytetu KhPI. Ser.: Istoriia nauky i tekhniky, (48), 161-169.

Pylypchuk, O., Strelko, O. (2018). P.P. Melnykov: life and activity. History of Science and Technology, (11), 44-53.

Vitte, S. Yu. (1960). Vospominaniya [Memories]. (Vol. 1). Moskva: Socehkgiz. [in Russian].

Sokolov, A., Andreeva, E., Andreeva, T., Kosopkin, A. (2008). Upravlencheskaya ehlita Rossijskoj imperii. Istoriya ministerstv. 1802–1917 [The administrative elite of the Russian Empire. History of ministries. 1802-1917].Sankt-Peterburg: Liki Rossii.

Istoricheskie zahoroneniya na Novodevich'em kladbishche [Historical burials at the Novodevichye Cemetery]. funeralassociation.ru Retrieved from http://www.funeralassociation.ru [in Russian].


Abstract views: 590
PDF Downloads: 285
Published
2018-06-27
How to Cite
Pylypchuk, O. Y., & Strelko, O. H. (2018). The thirteenth Minister of Railways of the Russian Empire Hiubbenet Adolf Yakovych (1831–1901). History of Science and Technology, 8(1(12), 39-52. https://doi.org/10.32703/2415-7422-2018-8-1(12)-39-52