Register of the Nikolai Petrovich Kalugin papers
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Title: Nikolai Petrovich Kalugin papers
Date (inclusive): 1921-1999
Collection Number: 2000C110
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material:
Russian
Physical Description:
3 microfilm reels
(0.45 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Speeches and writings, printed matter, personal documents, and photographs, relating to Russian émigré affairs, and especially
to the Kharbinskii Politekhnicheskii Institut.
Creator:
Kalugin, Nikolaĭ Petrovich, 1902-1987
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Access
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Use
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Acquisition Information
Acquired in 2000.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Nikolai Petrovich Kalugin Papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Location of Originals
Originals in: Museum of Russian Culture, San Francisco.
Chronology
1902 February 17 |
Born, Khabarovsk, Russia |
1924 |
Graduated, Kharbinskii politekhnicheskii institut, Harbin, China |
1925-1935 |
Civil engineer, Technical Department, Chinese Eastern Railway |
1935-1947 |
Engineer and contractor, Harbin, China |
1954 January 8 |
Arrived in Brazil |
1987 November 24 |
Died, San Francisco, California |
Biography
Nikolai Petrovich Kalugin was born in Khabarovsk on 17 February 1902. He graduated from the Kharbinskii Politekhnicheskii
Institut as a civil engineer in 1924, and worked in that capacity for the Technical Department of the Chinese Eastern Railway
until 1935. From 1935 to 1947, he headed his own engineering and contracting firm in Harbin, working on some of the larger
construction projects in the city at that time. He also worked in the Philippines in this period. In 1941 he was elected president
of the Society of Engineers in Manchuria, and from 1948-1953 lectured at the Kharbinskii Politekhnicheskii Institut.
Kalugin arrived in Brazil in 1954, working for Morrison Knudsen on the Itutinga Power Project, but ultimately received a visa
for the United States (1958), where he remained until his death in San Francisco on 24 November 1987. He was devoted to his
alma mater, the Harbin Polytechnic Institute, and collected many materials on it, including photographs and a run of the journal
issued by its graduates abroad, Politekhnik, which also carried a number of articles written by Kalugin himself.
Scope and Content Note
The bulk of this collection deals with Russians in Manchuria and particularly Harbin in the 1920s-1940s. N. P. Kalugin was
an engineer, and his papers contain significant information on the Russko-kitaiskii politekhnicheskii institut, later the
Harbin Polytechnic Institute (Kharbinskii politekhnicheskii institut), including a complete run of the periodical
Politekhnik, issued by its alumni association in Australia, and collected after his death by Kalugin's son, Nikolai.
Detailed processing and preservation microfilming for these materials were made possible by a generous grant from the National
Endowment for the Humanities and by matching funds from the Hoover Institution and Museum of Russian Culture. The grant also
provides depositing a microfilm copy in the Hoover Institution Library & Archives. The original materials remain in the Museum
of Russian Culture, San Francisco as its property. A transfer table indicating corresponding box and reel numbers is available
at the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
The Hoover Institution assumes all responsibility for notifying users that they must comply with the copyright law of the
United States (Title 17 United States Code) and Hoover Rules for the Use and Reproduction of Archival Materials.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Russians -- United States
Russians -- China
Engineers
Railroads -- China
Chinese Eastern Railway
Kharbinskiĭ politekhnicheskiĭ institut
BIOGRAPHICAL FILE
1921-1987
Scope and Contents note
Articles, curriculum vitae, death notices, educational, employment and medical records, and miscellany, arranged alphabetically
by physical form.
box 1, folder 1
Articles mentioning Kalugin
box 1, folder 2
Curriculum vitae.
Scope and Contents note
Includes autobiographical notes
box 1, folder 5
Employment records.
Scope and Contents note
Includes contracts, correspondence and letters of recommendation
SPEECHES AND WRITINGS
1959-1981
Scope and Contents note
Articles, reviews and speech, arranged chronologically by title.
See also: SUBJECT FILE/Kharbinskii Politekhnicheskii Institut for printed copies of Kalugin's articles in the journal
Politekhnik and additional articles not listed here.
box 1, folder 8
General. Reviews of
Politekhnik
1971-1981
Scope and Contents note
Holographs and printed copies
box 1, folder 9
Speech before a group of Harbin Polytechnic alumni in San Francisco on the occasion of the 37th anniversary of the institute's
founding
1959 May 11
Scope and Contents note
Holograph
box 1, folder 10
"Iubileinaia data Kharbinskogo politekhnicheskogo instituta,"
Novaia zaria
1970 October 28
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
box 1, folder 11
"Pamiati professora P. S. Sviridova"
[1971]
Scope and Contents note
Holograph
box 1, folder 12
"75-letie Kitaiskoi Vostochnoi zheleznoi dorogi,"
Novaia zaria
1972 January 21
Scope and Contents note
Holograph and printed copy
box 1, folder 13
"Nachal'noe razvitie goroda Kharbina,"
Novaia zaria
1972 January 25
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
box 1, folder 14
"2-oe aprelia 1922 goda,"
Politekhnik
1972 April 2
Scope and Contents note
Holograph
box 1, folder 15
"Piatidesiataia godovshchina osnovaniia Kharbinskogo politekhnicheskogo instituta,"
Russkaia zhizn'
1972 May 31
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
box 1, folder 16
"Semidesiatiletie Kitaisnoi Vostochnoi zheleznoi dorogi,"
Russkaia zhizn'
1972 August 18
Scope and Contents note
Holograph and printed copy
box 1, folder 17
"Pamiati bol'shogo russkogo inzhenera Stepana Prokof'evicha Timoshenko,"
Russkaia zhizn'
1972 November 2
Scope and Contents note
Holograph and printed copy. Includes background materials and slightly different version of article entitled "Pamiati zasluuzhennogo
professora S. P. Timoshenko,"
Novaia zaria, 1972 June 13. Printed copy
box 1, folder 18
Review of a concert performance by Irina Arkhipova
1972 November 26
Scope and Contents note
Holograph and advertisement
box 1, folder 19
"Bokserskoe dvizhenie pri postroike KVzhd,"
Novaia zaria
1973 March 17
Scope and Contents note
Holograph and printed copy
box 1, folder 20
"Igor' Ivanovich Sikorskii,"
Politekhnik
1973 April 2
Scope and Contents note
Background materials and holograph (fragment)
box 1, folder 21
"Krizis amerikanskogo inzhenera,"
Novaia zaria
1973 April 26
Scope and Contents note
Background materials and printed copy
box 1, folder 22
"Moi kharbinskie gody,"
Politekhnik
1974 April 2
Scope and Contents note
Holograph
box 1, folder 23
"Russkie inzhenery v SshA,"
Politekhnik
1975 April 2
Scope and Contents note
Background materials and holograph
box 1, folder 24
"K 60-oi godovshchine osnovaniia Politekhnicheskogo instituta v gorode Kharbine,"
Russkaia zhizn'
1980 May 16
Scope and Contents note
Holograph and typescript
SUBJECT FILE
1930-1999
Scope and Contents note
Diploma, printed matter and writings, arranged alphabetically by subject.
Kharbinskii politekhnicheskii institut
box 1, folder 25
General
Scope and Contents note
Includes diploma of G. P. Kravetskii (relative of Kalugin), published historical overviews, and clippings about the institute
box 1, folder 26
Den' Politekhnika
1928, 1930
box 1, folder 27
Izvestiia i trudy Russko-Kitaiskago politekhnicheskago instituta, #1 and #4
1924-1925
box 3
#10 - #15 and jubilee issue (1982), unnumbered
1979-1999
box 3, folder 1
Russians--China
Scope and Contents note
Clippings, notes and writings related primarily to Russians in Harbin and the Chinese Eastern Railway
box 3, folder 3
PHOTOGRAPHS
1921-1972
Scope and Contents note
Album and one print, depicting mainly individuals and events associated with the Harbin Polytechnic Institute.