Professional corporation of railway transport employees: material and everyday aspects of daily life (based on the material of the Orenburg province of mid-19th — early 20th century)
Zlata A. Shmidt, Teacher, Postgraduate Student
Chelyabinsk Institute of Railways — branch of Ural State University of Railways, South Ural State Humanitarian and Pedagogical University, Chelyabinsk, Russia, zlatAn1609@yandex.ru, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3861-1849
Abstract
The article examines living conditions, social support measures and material support for railway engineers using the example of the Orenburg province in the mid-19th — early 20th centuries. A study of living conditions, social support measures and material support for engineers is undertaken. The memoirs of prominent representatives of the technical intelligentsia form the basis for the description of the behavior, actions, thoughts, and lifestyle of regional railway engineers. The results of the study made it possible to recreate the sociocultural image of transport engineers, their image in the eyes of the public, which significantly complements the issue of everyday life of senior engineering personnel in pre-revolutionary Russia.
Keywords
History of everyday life, railway engineers, Southern Urals, Orenburg province, material support.
Acknowledgments: The work was carried out with the support of the Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education “Mordovia State Pedagogical University named after M. E. Evseev” under the contract for the implementation of scientific research work No. MK-03-2024 dated 05/31/2024. The author expresses gratitude to Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor of the Department of National History and Law of the Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education “SUSHPU” N. S. Sidorenko
For citation:
Shmidt Z. A. Professional corporation of railway transport employees: material and everyday aspects of daily life (based on the material of the Orenburg province of mid-19th — early 20th century). Vestnik of Orenburg State Pedagogical University. Electronic Scientific Journal, 2024, no. 4 (52), pp. 239—259. DOI: https://doi.org/10.32516/2303-9922.2024.52.15.
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